Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That evening Geoffrey Gill was dismissed from school "for a gross breach of discipline and a grave impropriety to his Royal Highness."
British newspapers headlined the incident. The father of Improper Geoffrey wrote to St. James's Palace, asking if the Prince had really been annoyed by the request. Result: a two-page autograph letter for Improper Geoffrey, marked "Strictly Private, Not for Publication," and Geoffrey's hasty reinstatement in...
¶Placed the Labor Government in a technical minority by passing 42 to 21 (with 674 absences and abstentions) a resolution which deplored Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's recognition of Soviet Russia (TIME, Nov. 18). The vote came after a sneering, sarcastic harang by the Earl of Birkenhead...
Despite the deploring vote of Their Lordships, Sir Esmond Ovey left London last week for Moscow as His Majesty's ambassador to the Reds.
¶Ordered not a single drink of vodka, last week, despite the fact that, for the first time since the War, the wine and spirit list of the House of Commons bars was revised to include "Finest Russian Liqueur Vodka . . . is. 6d" [36?]. Wags insisted that this innovation was for...