Word: penrith
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...Epping he had no more power than an honorable member for Deptford, Huddersfield, Moss Side, Smethwick, Penryn, and Falmouth, Tavistock, Penrith and Cockermouth, Spennymoor, The Wrenkin, Tewkesbury (pronounced "tooksbroo") or the 615 constituencies of England, Scotland and Wales. But as Winston Churchill the Elder Statesman, scarred veteran of innumerable parliamentary battles, historian of the World War, novelist, biographer of his ancestors, and the most pungent and expressive critic of Prime Minister Chamberlain, he had an influence, a possible future and a voice in affairs that made his position unique. That he was there at all said much about him, more...
Died. Lord Howard of Penrith, 75, who, as Sir Esme Howard, was British Ambassador to the U. S. from 1924 to 1930; in Hindhead, Surrey, England...
President Roosevelt was represented in the funeral procession which wound slowly this week from Westminster Hall to Paddington Station by grey & graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to whom was assigned as Lord-in-Waiting moose-tall Lord Howard of Penrith, onetime British Ambassador in Washington. For Adolf Hitler walked owl-solemn Baron Constantin von Neurath, who is not a Nazi. For Benito Mussolini stepped spruce Crown Prince Umberto. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria had to make his legs twinkle to keep up with the long strides of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf. For Joseph Stalin walked Soviet Foreign Minister...
Baron Howard of Penrith, Britain's one-time Ambassador to the U. S. (as Sir Esme Howard), fell downstairs in the House of Lords, cut his pate...
Gytha Stourton, great-granddaughter of the 19th Baron Stourton and cousin of former British Ambassador Esme William Howard, First Baron Howard of Penrith, sailed to rejoin her fiance, Signer Fiorbanti del Agnese, onetime butler at the British Embassy in Washington. Last summer her father sternly and conclusively told London reporters that any engagement between her and well-born but indigent Signer Fiorbanti del Agnese was "impossible and absurd...