Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Droned through a little perfunctory debate, during which several Peers of the Realm were observed to be reading the just-published memoirs of Viscount D'Ab ernon, who was Britain's first post-War ambassador (1920-26) to Germany. At the Spa Conference in 1920, Viscount D'Abernon wrote in his diary, under date of July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could...
...professor of politics from 1907 to 1917. From 1917 to 1922 he was director of the Training School for Public Service in New York, and during 1922 held the same position at the Institute of Municipal Research in Tokyo. After the Japanese earthquake in 1923, he became adviser to viscount Goto, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs. In 1926 he was president of the American Political Science Association...
...While Viscount Ennismore was at Oxford people called him "Will" or "Mr. Hare" because he so insistently asked them to. He was a Socialist, he said, and so he had no use for his title...
...shares of Neighbors Ltd.," said Viscount Ennismore last week, "will be sold at a penny each to wealthy men who wish to show the sincerity of their Socialism, and remove the obstacles of their capital, earned or unearned. Each purchaser of a penny share binds himself to contribute ?100 [$486] to the company's Permanent Fund. The sole business of Neighbors Ltd. will be to administer the Fund in the interest of Social Service...
After some reflection, Viscount Ennismore indicated that a Socialist Tycoon who bought enough penny shares to enable him to contribute his whole fortune in ?100 units to Neighbors Ltd. might receive "modest stipends" as follows: 1) If single, ?3 a week ($14.58); 2) If married ?4 ($19.44); 3) If a parent, 10 shillings ($2.44) extra for each child. Asked how he himself would subsist on ?3 a week, Bachelor Viscount Ennis more said: "I shall take a chamber, not too dear, and make ends meet by embroidering...