Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditional for the men of the House of Marlborough to marry pretty women, love the British Empire, dine well and raise hell in politics. Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Winston, had "force, caprice and charm." At times he also had bitter words for his colleagues in the House of Commons and blunt criticism of mismanaged government...
Last week, true to tradition, another Churchill had added his say about how Britain should be governed. He was the Prime Minister's brash and volatile son, Major Randolph Churchill, an M.P. for the Lancashire cotton-weaving town of Preston, who was on one of his leaves from duty in Egypt...
Young (31) Randolph Churchill is not as young as he once was, nor as amusing. At the age of 19, sure of himself and the world's affairs, he lectured in the U.S. on such subjects as: The British Empire and World Progress; Why I am not a Socialist...
Returning home, young Randolph lectured British audiences on life in America and the poor quality of American food. He got a job earning ?2,000 a year working for the Hearst press. (To a British aristocrat the source of money is of small importance.) But he itched to be a proper politician. He tried three times, a boisterous, hard-hitting, unsuccessful candidate for Parliament who rebelled against Conservative Party tactics and advice. One month after World War II began he married redhaired, green-eyed Socialite Pamela Digby, daughter of the nth Baron Digby. He was then a subaltern...
...Egypt as a press-relations officer, young Randolph won the respect of correspondents writhing under stupid Egyptian and British censorship. In 1942 he joined up as a commando, was injured last May in an auto accident. Invalided home, young Churchill took the long route, via the U.S. Here he visited politicians in Washington, production men in Detroit and nightclubs in New York...