Word: vere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master stroke of Empire tact, His Majesty's Government last week gave Canada its first commoner for Governor-General. Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough. Last week Governor-General Bessborough, wife & daughter were in western Canada on a "farewell tour." By all etiquet, his successor should not have been named until after Bessborough finishes presiding at the King's Silver Jubilee ceremonies in Canada. But George V's popularity in his dominions is more important to the Government than Bessborough...
Whipped by a 40 m. p. h. gale, an Ottawa blizzard lashed the state carriage of Canada's unpopular Governor General last week, as His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, rode out to open Parliament for the last time in his five year vice-Regal term. The next Governor General may just possibly be His Majesty's youngest son the Duke of Kent. Last week Lord Bessborough further miffed Canadians by insisting that his youngest son, aged 3, should see papa open Canada's Senate and House of Commons. As usual the vice-Regal...
Canada's Governor General Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough, in England on leave, tried to catch a drunken monkey on his Hampshire estate by swooping on it in an airplane, dropping a net. The monkey, which had taken to the Earl's whiskey, escaped in the underbrush...
...could fix filled and emptied the air, now eerily fading, now resurging like a seashell's roar, brassily clanging, diminishing, mellowing into silver chimes. It was the University of Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge 72-note instrument, the second that John Davison Rockefeller has given in memory of his mother Laura Spelman Rockefeller, who liked bells. The stone tower seemed to shake as the concussions of big bronze bells struck...
Last April Chicago's carillon was tested at Croydon, England, before the Bishops of Croydon, Guildford and Norwich and 2,700 English & Irish bell ringers. Chicagoans inside & outside the chapel last week heard Carilloneur Lefévere, imported from Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, play "Now Thank We All Our God," a spot of counterpoint by Handel, "Annie Laurie," a Welsh folksong arid an ancient hymn from the Low Countries, home of the carillon...