Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maker of this flattering comparison was the U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, suave Hugh Simons Gibson, who represented the U. S. before the League. The new hero, the orator who was discovered to resemble Cicero, is Baron Cushendun, who last fall replaced Viscount Cecil of Chelwood at Geneva...
...quest of adventure, two blithe British women took off last week. One, Lady Mary Bailey, with a mad flourish of acrobatics, hopped across Europe on her lonesome way to Cape Town, Africa. The other, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, madcap daughter of James Lyle Mackay, Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, muffled herself almost beyond recognition and stealthily departed with one-eyed Capt. Walter G. R. Hinch-liffe on the treacherous flight across the Atlantic, Westward...
There have been two other recipients of the Woodrow Wilson Peace Award: in 1924, Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 63; in 1926, Elihu Root...
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, brother and successor to the late famed Lord Northcliffe, heads the new group. He announced, last week, that it will exploit the news service of his Daily Mail and the picture service of his Daily Mirror by enlarging both to serve a to-be-founded chain of afternoon papers in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow. Thus Lord Rothermere proclaims that he will enter cutthroat competition with the numerous afternoon newspapers already owned in the provinces by the famed Berry brothers (TIME...
Rothermere. "American women are clever, beautiful and the best dressed in the world, but they have too few babies. In touring the country one sees too few children. With restricted immigration in effect, this looks bad for future population." So said Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, brother and successor to the late British newspaper titan, Lord Northcliffe. Having spoken, Lord Rothermere embarked recently at Manhattan for England...