Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Cave. Lying invalid in his Somersetshire home of Burnham-on-Sea, George Viscount Cave, 72, felt his strength definitely impaired, last week, and executed in good time his resignation as Lord High Chancellor. The incumbent of this office is the highest civil subject in the land outside the royal family. He keeps the King's conscience, sits on the Woolsack as Speaker of the House of Lords, surmounts the pyramid of English judges, partakes of membership in the Cabinet, and performs such chores as standing guardian of all infants and lunatics...
...King-Emperor, upon receiving the resignation of Viscount Cave, and being, doubtless aware of his critical condition, promptly elevated him to the rank of Earl. His charm, straightforwardness, and singularly active common sense were recalled as men ran over a few of the great offices which he has held: Attorney General to Edward of Wales (1914-15), Solicitor General (1915-16), Home Secretary (1916-19) and, since 1924, Lord High Chancellor...
Swift coursing news must be speeded onto paper by a lightning, decisive mind. Necessarily the titans of newspaperdom have been dictators-James Gordon Bennett, Joseph Pulitzer, Viscount Northcliffe. These men had no time, in business moments, for Democracy or its delays. They are dead, but their dynamic Shades must have approved, last week, when that trampler upon Democracy, Signor Benito Mussolini,* was impetuously championed in the London Daily Mail by its owner, Lord Rothermere, brother and successor to the late Lord Northcliffe...
...sooner had Il Duce entertained Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, in audience, at Rome last week, than His Lordship rushed to cable the Daily Mail, over his personal signature, and with an abrupt, excited opening paragraph, as follows...
Engaged. Caryl Nicholas Charles Hardinge, 22, fourth Viscount Hardinge and aide-de-camp to Lord Willingdon, Governor General of Canada, and Miss Margot Fleming, of Wynwards, Rockliffe Park, Ottawa, granddaughter of Sir Sandford Fleming, one of the builders of the Canadian Pacific...