Word: trevelyan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich, and one (Author-Economist Sidney Webb) was educated in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Super-educated is Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, president of the Board of Education, schooled at Harrow and Cambridge, son of famed Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan, grandnephew of Lord (Horatius at the Bridge) Macaulay, brother of Historian George Macaulay Trevelyan...
Died. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 90, famed British statesman and historian (Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, The American Revolution), onetime member of the Gladstone Cabinet, nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay; after a critical illness, in Northumberland, England...
DEBONAIR-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Twittering, dove-colored, Mrs. Trevelyan welcomes her daughter, Loveday, back to their little haven on the Italian Riviera, and would so gladly "forgive and forget" if only she would confide...
Eventually she reached the Riviera, and played white-clad jeune fille to a smugly relieved mother, who basked then for weeks in the compliments the world paid her upon her daughter. Lest Mrs. Trevelyan's serenity be disturbed by the discovery of unaccountable Balkan visas on Loveday's passport, the girl blithely burns it. Just at the wrong time, however, for Loveday hears of Petal's remarriage, and instinctively recognizes that Charles, released from the bondage of maternal adoration, would yield to his Debonair if only she were at hand. How to get to England? A convenient...
...last there is an end to adversity, and they all live happily ever afterward-even Mrs. Trevelyan, relieved, once her daughter is safely married, of the necessity of posing to herself and to the world as the chosen confidante and sponsor of so disturbingly modern a daughter...