Word: marquess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true middle ground of British opinion was perhaps taken by the Daily Chronicle, a newspaper directed by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of Reading, and other Liberals of the vanishing Gladstonian-Asquithian stamp. "We can assure our American friends," pontificated the Chronicle, "that they ought not attribute this faux pas to wickedness, but only to the stupidity of our Ministers...
...second most mispronounced British peer is perhaps "Lord Chumly," spelled Cholmondeley. The Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley stubbornly persist in calling themselves "Chumly." Last week their daughter, Lady Aline "Chumly," presided over a charity rummage sale at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, while their youngest man child, Lord John "Chumly" donned a "cowboy suit" (imported from the U. S.) and took sixpences from people who wanted to dip into a bran tub for prizes of doubtful value...
Tobacco Tycoon Bernhard Baron set aside last week a fund of ?500,000 ($2,430,000) to be administered in favor of Christian and Jewish hospitals, at the discretion of a board chairmanned by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading...
Commoner Baron told the Marquess of Reading that he desires the whole trust sum to be expended within 20 years in donations made every Dec. 5, Mr. Baron's birthday...
...Marquess of Reading, onetime Viceroy of India (1921-26): "The comparative failure of other agreements to give Europe the sense of security essential to disarmament and permanent peace I lay to the fact that America refused to be a party to those covenants and conventions. . . . That is why I call the proposal of the United States the greatest forward movement that has yet been made toward World Peace. . . . America is coming...