Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is to be a disarmament conference at Geneva, the plenipotentiary of the U. S. will be Hugh S. Gibson, newly appointed Ambassador to Belgium (see below). Great Britain's leading delegate will probably be Viscount Cecil (Lord Robert Cecil) of Chelwood; first (1924) winner of the Woodrow Wilson $25,000 peace prize...
...trial, which had long since become a legal farce, drew to a close without any real evidence against the character of Mr. Gladstone having been adduced. Viscount Gladstone admitted that Mr. Gladstone often spoke to fallen women on the street, but explained away all taint of scandal as follows: "My father founded the Newport Market Refuge for Women, and helped to found St. Mary Magdalene Home as a refuge for fallen women. I remember going to these places with him as a boy. My mother went too. The main social work in which my father and mother were interested took...
...Viscount Gladstone's attorney interrupted at this point to read from the works of Viscount Morley concerning Mr. Gladstone: "In these humane efforts at reclamation among fallen women! he persevered all through his life, fearless of misconstruction, fearless of the levity or baseness of men's tongues...
...father," concluded Viscount Gladstone, "kept to his resolution in this matter with an iron tenacity...
Verdict. The jury, after a brief absence, returned the verdict that it was not libelous for Viscount Gladstone to have referred to Captain Wright as "a foul fellow . . . a liar ... a coward . . . and a fool." Having thus squelched the Captain, the foreman of the jury addressed the presiding justice as follows: "My lord, the jury wish to add that it is our unanimous opinion that the evidence placed before us has completely vindicated the hieh moral character of the late Mr. William Ewart Glad-stone...