Word: abernon
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Driving up to Stoke D'Abernon, the 23-year-old Oxford graduate nervously fingered his blond, bristly mustache. With a good war record behind him (he had lost an eye in a Jap air raid on Burma), he had come to Stoke in search of a peacetime career. A "houseparty" exam at the government's 300-year-old manor house is now the way to get a topflight civil service job in England...
Critics moving diffidently among the silk hats of the gentry approved Augustus John's state portrait of white-chinned Viscount d'Abernon (Argentine Trade Mission, TIME, Sept. 23, 1929) in the red robes of the Bath, Sir John Lavery's state portrait of mutton-chop-whiskered Lord Lonsdale in the blue robes of the Garter, the ever popular sporting pictures of A. J. Munnings. World wide depression, they noted, had a marked effect in reducing the number of large statues on view...
Last week England's noted elder economist Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon, who was her Ambassador to Germany directly after the War, spoke up, as more active financiers cannot very well do. Said he: "This depression is the stupidest and most gratuitous in history!" All the existing essential circumstances "except monetary wisdom," he declared, favor a return to prosperity and well being. Gold is the thing about which 1930 was stupid, about which 1931 must be wise. "The explanation of our anomalous situation," declared Lord d'Abernon, "is that the machinery for handling...
London was as worried as Washington was relieved. El Hombre signed with Viscount D'Abernon in Buenos Aires last year a $38,880,000 mutual trade agreement highly advantageous to Britain, distinctly menacing to U. S. trade. Does that still stand? Worried, the London Daily Herald, organ of James Ramsay MacDonald, called up General Uriburu to ask. Over a radio telephone span of 7,000 miles the General answered slowly, loudly in English...
...what it sets out to do," said he last week. "It is not a true stimulant. The result it brings is not exempt from disagreeable and injurious reaction. Therefore I continue to believe in the eventual concoction of some preferable substitute." Asked to be more specific Viscount D'Abernon said, with the air of a man who dreams dreams and sees visions: "A vast fortune would reward the discoverer of this preferable beverage, this true stimulant, and upon him would descend the gratitude of humanity...