Word: parmoor
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...King Zog of Albania is at Parmoor, High Wycombe, Bucks. He plays billiards...
...backgrounds of any English leftist. The man who urged the British to "cut down the decaying wood of the House of Lords before it falls upon us" is descended from Sire Crispe de Stanlake, a 13th-century Buckinghamshire squire, Sir Stafford's father and two uncles were peers (Parmoor, Passfield, Courtney). His brother, Freddie, married the Duchess of Westminster...
Died. Charles Alfred Cripps, Baron Parmoor, 88, parliamentary and ecclesiastical lawyer, father of Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to Soviet Russia; at Henley-on-Thames, England...
...sultry evening in the House of Lords last week, peers of the realm reclined at their ease on red leather benches thinking, most of them, of "The Twelfth," immemorial August opening of Britain's grouse season. That most pedantic Laborite peer, snowy-haired Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, had the floor. The 68-year-old Conservative Leader of the House of Lords, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, co-heir to the Barony of Ogle, started from a daydream just as Lord Parmoor was saying...
...Lord Parmoor gazed at him acidly. "I meant," said he, "the great Lord Salisbury...