Word: viscountal
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...King's second son, the Duke of York, to be a vice admiral, a lieutenant general and a Marshal of the Royal Air Force; Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton, London Police Commissioner from 1931 to 1935, to be a viscount; Miss Jackson, private secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's wife, Lucy, to be an officer. Pianist Myra Hess to be a Commander, oldtime Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst to be a Dame Commander, of the Order of the British Empire...
...London Daily Mirror, Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," printed an editorial entitled "Leave Them Alone." Simultaneously he covered his front page with Lindbergh news supplied by his watchful reporters...
...list marked for assassination, has been bombed twice. Last week Count Makino surrendered to the unceasing pressure brought against him by the Army men, pleaded a bad case of neuritis, resigned as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Emperor gave the job to the man Makino suggested: Viscount Admiral Makoto Saito, 77, one-time Premier. This tough but mellow oldster with a portentous pair of jowls can talk as moderately as Makino, but in a pinch he usually knuckles under to the militarists...
Seated on the woolsack in his best robes and formal full-bottomed wig, Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham and Lord High Chancellor, commanded Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, Clerk of the Parliaments, to call the roll. About 100 of the realm's approximate total of 860 peers had arrived, this making an unusually large House of Lords...
...empty Throne symbolized the King. Upon the Dais in front of it, slightly more uncomfortable than on his usual woolsack, Viscount Hailsham sat down. The peers doffed their cocked hats. Garter King of Arms, a figure in black and cloth-of-gold, read the King's Commission signed by George V: "Know ye that Edward Southwell Russell, Lord de Clifford, stands indicted before...