Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When Viscount Lascelles lingered in the window, a voice in the crowd chirped: "'Oo wants to see 'IM?'' After ten minutes the Queen spoke decisively to the King and royalty withdrew from sight...
...scandal was unearthed at Scotland Yard last week, and London's police commissioner, General Lord Byng of Vimy, Viscount of Thorpe-le-Soken, sat up all night to investigate it. Bolshevik agents were said to be learning British troop movements with amazing promptitude. Officers of the special political branch of Scotland Yard were accused of fraternizing with foreign agents and communists...
...Died. Viscount Shimpei Goto, 73, of Tokyo, "Roosevelt of Japan," sometime Foreign Minister, Civil Governor of Formosa, railway president, sanitation expert, subway builder. Boy Scout organizer, potent non-partisan politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; en route to Kyoto...
...Nathans '30, Duke of Glastonbury; Maurice Kurnitsky '30, Lord Brooke of Brookehill; David White '29, Lord Cudworth; L. M. Shapiro '29. Charles Viscount Deeford; L. H. Weinstein 21, the Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, M. P.; N. J. Winer '31, Mr. Hugh Meyers; P. W. Winer 31, Sir Michael Probert, Bart.; Arnold Kowarsky '31, Mr. Lumley Foljambe; William Taub '32, Bascot, Disraeli's Butler; A. I. M. Abramson '29, Flooks, a rural postman...
Last week London's Lord Mayor Sir Kynaston Studd dined exceedingly well. Among his guests were Viscount Byng of Vimy and Thorpe-le-Soken, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Viscount Lascelles, Lord Chancellor Baron Hailsham. Also present was Dr. Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton, author of many a learned treatise and many a tingling ghost story. All the guests were Eton graduates. Provost James offered the famed toast, Floreat Etonia. Then, pridefully eyeing the company, he added: "Gentlemen, the purpose of Eton is to produce old Etonians...