Word: stamfordham
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That it hardly was, that it all bleakly and unbeguilingly wasn't for "the likes" of him-poor decent Stamfordham- to rap out queries about the owner of the to him unknown and unsuggestive name that had, in these days, been thrust on him with such a wealth of commendatory gesture, was precisely what now, as he took, with his prepared list of New Year colifichets and whatever, his way to the great gaudy palace, fairly flicked his cheek with the sense of his having never before so let himself in, as he ruefully phrased it, without letting anything...
...Emperor of India (Entering accompanied by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, taking his stance in front of the gilded Throne, glancing deliberately about while the assemblage bowed, dipping for his spectacles and putting them on, receiving his manuscript speech from Lord Stamfordham, facing his special gold & silver microphone, holding up his speech with hands that trembled slightly...
...King-Emperor is one of the six or seven finest wing shots in England. To console him for the loss of the Scotch shooting, the Sandringham gamekeeper announccd that Sandringham coverts are unusually well-stocked this year. Last week Lord Stamfordham, the King's private secretary, ordered a pair of guns a few ounces lighter than those His Majesty used before his illness, from Purdey, famed gunsmith...
...addition to painting President and Mrs. Coolidge, Painter Salisbury has been collecting newspaper clippings concerning the illness of King George. He intends to send these clippings to Lord Stamfordham, royal private secretary...
...chatty autobiography by Will Thorne, horney-handed M. P. of the Labor Party, was published in London last week. Mr. Thorne treats his reminiscences like fine liqueurs, slowly sipped. He remembers how he, frowsily dressed astounded a taxi-driver by directing: "Buckingham Palace"; how he said to Lord Stamfordham (the King's Secretary) : "I have been led to understand one has to do a lot of bowing and scraping;" how Lord Stamfordham told him he was mistaken; how his preconception of the King was indeed mistaken...