Word: wedderburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engagement Broken. Mary Ellery Channing, Boston post-debutante, and David Scrymgeour (pronounced skrimjer) Wedderburn, Royal Scots Guards officer, equerry to the Duke of Gloucester; in London...
...this point Frances May Maddux, with the aplomb of many a speakeasy and night-club experience at her command, and Cinemactress Grace Evans joined the party. So did the Duke's equerry, Lieutenant David Scrymgeour (sometimes pronounced skinner) Wedderburn of the Scots Guards. Yankee Celler raised a glass. Yankee Maddux proposed a toast. "To disaster," she chirruped, adding cannily, "if it comes." To disaster they drank. Then, prudently refraining from smashing the glasses, they proceeded to polish off both bottles...
Although Britain's tallest ambassador, six-foot-four-inch Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. has spent the past four years of his diplomatic life in Egypt, until last week he put little stock in the accepted Egyptian method of removing snakes from a household. Proper procedure for this everyday occurrence is to call a professional snake charmer...
...last week Egyptians boiled with demands that their lickspit Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha should at least make the turning to Alexandria into Britain's main Mediterranean war base the occasion for wangling some heavy palm oil out of his and Egypt's master, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. British High Commissioner to the Inde pendent Kingdom of Egypt...
...nominal "open door" with a thousand petty obstructions for foreign businessmen. Last week two of the oldest British firms in China (Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.) began to close their Manchurian branches. Fearing a duplication in North China, the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson called on the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Peiping, Shoichi Xakayama, and offered himself as middleman in direct negotiations between Japan and China. He made his old suggestion of a ten-mile neutral zone just south of the Wall to be closed to troops of both sides. Nakayama...