Word: willingdon
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...monocle-wearing 1st Marquess of Willingdon, super-dignified Governor General of Canada (1926-31) and Viceroy of India (1931-36), is just about the last Briton anyone would expect to organize a fashion show. But the Marquess recently returned from an exploratory trade mission in South America and it so happens that beauteous, tawny-toned Miss Rosemary Chance, who models clothes for swishy London photographers, is the Marquess' niece. Last week under his august sponsorship, and with the active cooperation of Their Majesties, Miss Chance and 17 other 100% British mannequins prepared to sail on a fashion tour...
...Britain is also Argentina's best single customer, hopes to remain so if for no other reason than to keep excess Argentine goods from Nazi Europe. Last week Britain announced that a diplomatic trade mission would tour the South American countries next month under 74-year-old Marquis Willingdon, former Viceroy of India, onetime cricket champion, reputedly the suavest and most able trouble shooter in the Empire. The British stressed the fact that their mission had been planned with collaboration and approval...
...altogether, announced a dinner at York House in St. James's Palace at which ate His Majesty and Mrs. Simpson, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, the First Lord of the Admiralty and Lady Maud Hoare, Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill and Lord and Lady Willingdon, the former Viceroy and Vicereine of India...
...Committee, who tried hard to remain anonymous, were Dame Laura Knight's husband, Professor Harold Knight, who accepted three of his own portraits, including one of Laurence Olivier as Romeo; Sculptor Sir William Reid Dick, who accepted a model of his own giant statue of the Earl of Willingdon; Alfred J. Munnings, who accepted his own portrait of the Master of the Essex Union and five others. Their only pay for their three-month job was a daily lunch at Burlington House. Academicians were permitted to submit six pictures, outsiders three...
...great, white stairs of Government House stood the retiring Viceroy, long-jawed, lean Freeman Freeman-Thomas, first Earl of Willingdon. Again 31 guns crashed out as Lord Linlithgow shook hands with Lord Willingdon, went inside for a long talk. Before Lord Linlithgow could become the new Viceroy, the old Viceroy must quit India. This Lord Willingdon proceeded to do next day, accompanied by a send-off precisely paralleling Lord Linlithgow's welcome...