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...least cautious move was his marriage to Emma Wedgwood. It took him only three years to decide on that plunge. On the one hand, debated Darwin, was the "terrible loss of time"; on the other "a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books and music perhaps. . . ." Handsome, untidy, cheerful, unsentimental Emma was not soft, but she was, for Darwin, more than nice. Their marriage was as blissful as the Brownings'. They both agreed that Tennyson's poetry was usually silly, detested the same people, chiefly the Carlyles...
...name of common humanity!" interrupted Laborite Wedgwood Benn...
...Churchill bides his time, but Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, a fiery Labor M. P. related to Wedgwood China and a Constitutional authority of repute, has already drafted a motion in effect telling the King to marry whom he likes and defy Baldwin...
...earth should not the King marry an American if he wants?" roars Colonel Wedgwood. "This crisis to my mind is an insult to the United States! What is it that makes an American inferior to a German?"-i. e., the Prince Consort Albert or Queen Mary, whose girlhood title was Princess of Teck in Germany, though Her Majesty was born in England. "Personally I believe the Cabinet is wrong about the Dominions," continues Colonel Wedgwood, "I believe the Dominions are behind the King, just as are the mass of people in this country!" Says beefy Lord Castlerosse, the inseparable companion...
When King's Man No. 2 Wedgwood tries to get assurance from Prime Minister Baldwin that there will not be unexpectedly sprung upon the House some form of "abdication" he gets no further than that word, then is drowned out with cries of "Order, Order...