Word: cavendish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cook for the gentlemen in White's Club until she resigned after calling an amorous nobleman "an old woodcock in tights." King Edward lavished on her gifts which only a sovereign could bestow with propriety upon a subject. "Brooches, bracelets and things" were her portion, and the Cavendish Hotel, which she still owns. She comes to the U. S. for two reasons-partly tohelp her publishers, and partly to sell some pre-Gobelin tapestries, showing the life of Constantine the Great, which have been part of her collection. "There have only been three men in my life," said...
...Britannic Majesty hunted last week at Bolton Abbey, the Yorkshire estate of rich and potent William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, onetime Governor General of Canada...
...rivals. Sir Joshua and Gainsborough were his superiors; they never stooped to rival him, Yet secretly they envied, even then, his popularity. Sir Joshua in his later period (he was eight years older than Romney) would not speak of him by name. He said, "The Man in Cavendish Square. . . ." Romney never retaliated by branding Reynolds as "The Man in St. Martin's Lane," "The Dauber in Great Newport Street," or "The Lump in Leicester Square," although the latter made residence, at one time or another, in all these thoroughfares. Romney never retaliated...
Gladstone could not and did not overlook the fact that Chamberlain had "come up from trade," while Spencer Compton Cavendish (by courtesy styled the Marquis of Hartington) was a scion of the nobility. And a comparison of the brain power of those two men would be "odorous...
...QUEEN OF COOKS-AND SOME KINGS- Recorded by Mary Lawton- Boni, Liveright ($3.00). Lord Northcliffe and ''heaps of others" long pestered Cook Rosa Lewis of the Cavendish Hotel, London, for her "story." Now it is told, in her own saucy words, to a honey-tongued minion of The Pictorial Review. From a pigtailed slavey to a wealthy, highly temperamental, badly spoiled but charming intimate of all the Victorian bigwigs including the seventh Edward, his cousin Wilhelm and even some Boston Cabots-that is a story made more remarkable by the absence of any evidence that Rosa operated...