Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rain poured. Nineteen guns boomed. The Empress of Scotland docked at Quebec last week bearing Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, the new Governor General of Canada (TIME, June...
Lady Willingdon, brunette, in-clined to plumpness, presented the purser with a diamond stickpin, "on account of the trouble we have given on the way over." Viscount Willingdon, slender, a head taller than his wife, chatted before debarking with Premier King who had come on board as the ship entered the harbor...
Controlling himself, Viscount Cecil rapped out that from what he knew of the incident at Wanhsien it was "not at all as described...
...Baron and Baroness Byng sailed from Quebec on the Empress of France, the newly appointed Governor General, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon (TIME, June 21), embarked with Lady Willingdon at Southampton on the Empress of Scotland. Meanwhile Mr. King had formed the following Cabinet...
...Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon: "I have written another book, this time not on war* but on birds, beasts, flowers. I wrote about my sanctuary for waterfowl. Said I: 'There is a sort of romance in having naturally shy birds, perfectly free and unpinioned, coming ... to feed with perfect confidence out of my hand. . . .' Then I wrote of the late Theodore Roosevelt, how once he and I spent 20 hours studying bird song in the wilds of Hampshire. Said I: '. . . [Roosevelt] had a real feeling and taste for bird song...