Word: rudyard
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...Little Rudyard, "The Beetle," was sent to be educated at Westward Ho! (a quiet English town). In Stalky & Co he has chronicled his teen-age mischief there. Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville is today so proud of having been the original "Stalky" that he has called his two books of memoirs Stalky's Reminiscences and Stalky Settles Down...
...Rudyard Kipling briefly revisited New York and nearly died there of pneumonia, both Kaiser Wilhelm II and Queen Victoria asking to be kept informed. His more spiteful enemies said that during this illness "the writer died although the man recovered." One critic yearned publicly for the time "when the rudyards cease from kipling." But it was not to come for 37 years. During the World War that which had been Imperial England was bled until there were such things as a Labor Cabinet, a British General Strike, a Depression and 11,000,000 British votes for the League of Nations...
Even before his Sussex retirement Rudyard Kipling rebuked his Britannia...
...been generally believed that Queen Victoria was "not amused" by the Widow at Windsor and had her revenge by not appointing Rudyard Kipling to the post of Poet Laureate. In 1930, Mr. Kipling was in Bermuda when the death of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges occurred. Stanley Baldwin, Mr. Kipling's cousin, had presented him to King George at a levee; the King and Queen had once invited him to be their guest at Balmoral; and each year he received a crisp Buckingham Palace invitation to the Royal Garden Party. Therefore in Bermuda in 1930 the news that King George...
...Crown to answer on Judgment Day why there was never created Sir Rudyard Kipling or Lord Kipling? To his grave without a ribbon to stick in his coat or a peerage which would have died with him, the Empire sent last week a man whom an Empire poll even now would doubtless choose as the supreme poet of Empire...