Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberal M.P.'s mostly seemed content. But the chief Liberal peers, headed by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, announced next day that they had formed "the Liberal Council," really a new party with a separate headquarters and pledged to support the policies of Lord Oxford and Asquith who resigned (TIME, Oct. 25) as Leader of the Liberal party on account of disagreements with Lloyd George...
Significance. The Chaplin case was momentous in British newspaperdom as the first divorce action to test thoroughly the new suppressive law. Was it well that Britons could not read the details of the case, or, in the words of Viscount Burnham, proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, is the law "an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities...
...Damme Sir! We love you for yourself!"--Viscount Byng to Edward, Prince of Wales...
Last week, Viscount Julian Byng of Vimy, onetime Governor General of Canada (1921-26), presided in London at a banquet attended by Edward of Wales and there loosed what Queen Victoria would have called "a fearful oath...
...came when toasts were going around. Raising his glass, and turning to Edward, the grizzled soldier-Viscount cried: "Damme Sir! We love you for yourself...