Word: vii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land as "Q," red-haired Quiller-Couch (Couch, pronounced Cooch, means red in Celtic) wrote the first of his 30 romantic novels (Dead Man's Rock) in 1887, edited the Oxford Book of English Verse. An Oxford graduate, he was longtime (since 1912) King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He always wore traditional morning dress to his lectures, relaxed in old clothes and a battered brown derby as famed in England as Al Smith's in the U.S. In 1922, sharp-faced, crusty Q addressed and amazed a conference of churchmen: "I do hold that...
...Sandringham, in Norfolk, near The Wash, the King's farmers clucked to the King's horses and turned the King's sod as they and their fathers did for George V and his father, Edward VII. The King was born in York Cottage, Sandringham, and his father died there...
...Brett. The Honorable Dorothy Brett was born in London (1891), daughter of Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher, friend and adviser of Britain's shrewd, sporty King Edward VII. Dorothy studied art at London's Slade School. In her art-student days she met Novelist D. H. Lawrence, was so impressed by him that she followed him to Taos. After Lawrence's death, in 1933. Dorothy Brett wrote Lawrence and Brett, a minor literary sensation...
Again, before Churchill agreed to Article VII of the 1942 Lend-Lease agreement (which called for an end to trade discrimination and reduction of tariff barriers), he obtained from Mr. Roosevelt specific assurance that the text "no more committed [Britain] to the abolition of imperial preference than the American Government was committed to the abolition of their protective tariffs...
...gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle Vue Edward VII, for two). The management hastily dropped Le Coq, substituted a $10 veal chop...