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...munching crackers and sipping sherry until 4:12 a. m.-the latest session of the House of Lords since 1887-as Labor peers asked endless questions anent the "Sedition Bill" (TIME, Nov. 12), all courteously answered by Viscount Hailsham, His Majesty's Secretary of State for War, once famed as Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg (TIME...
...generation after generation statesmen and monarchs have mounted the grand curving stair of Londonderry House to pompous festivities in the historic rooms above. The present 7th Marquess of Londonderry is also Viscount Castlereagh. Prominently in Londonderry House hangs a portrait of his ancestor of whom Thomas Moore riddled venomously...
...pump like Viscount Castlereagh? Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood...
...seduction" of the Scot continued until his whole outlook on life has come to parallel that of the Londonderrys. Fortnight ago Viscount Snowden revealed in his tart autobiography (TIME, Nov. 5) the Prime Minister's humorous admission that because of his metamorphosis "every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss me." In what a Canadian paper promptly called the hen-run of British society dowagers the Marchioness of Londonderry is undisputed No. 1 hen to Scot MacDonald's chaste Chanticleer...
...money to his pet hospital, St. George's. All wedding gifts to British Royalty from persons "unknown to themselves or to the Lord Chamberlain" are returned to the would-be donors. Fifty thousand were sent back at the time of popular Princess Mary's marriage to Viscount Lascelles. Exceptions are made for reasons of State and publicity. Thus the official list of wedding gifts accepted by King George's parents includes: "from ten newsboys, a cigaret-holder; from three bus-drivers, a pipe ; from five hansom-cab drivers, a whip...