Word: wolseley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tireless Editor Grey often toiled 16 hours at a stretch before tooling off in his Wolseley to his Kingston-on-Thames home, nine miles from London (he is married, has a girl, 7, a boy, 9, who wants to be a flier). Most of his philippics he rasped into a dictaphone at crack of dawn before shaving and bathing. But last week Charles Grey Grey's dictaphone was muted. If he was for once muffled, however, he was far from subdued. Asked by newsmen if he would work with the Government, die-hard Editor Grey snorted: "Not with this...
...third exception, but only by a considerable stretch of meaning." Eventually he did attend the Monday conference, to listen but not to speak. Accompanied by his faithful Mrs. Sarojini Naidu carrying a thermos bottle full of goat's milk and a bag of nuts, he arrived in a small Wolseley saloon upholstered in scarlet leather. Dignified Sir Samuel Hoare attracted no little attention by popping suddenly from the interior of a small Baby Austin. Despite the secrecy of hotel employes, reporters discovered that St. Gandhi had had a secret conference with Scot MacDonald in the swank Dorchester Hotel...