Word: sassoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directed upon the Prime Minister last week. Lady Houston, who inherited $35,000,000 from the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston, offered "to prevent the Socialist Government from being spoilsports" by paying the Schneider expenses beyond what the Government itself could afford. A deputation headed by Sir Philip Sassoon, chairman of the Royal Aero Club, and Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson visited the Prime Minister. From their meetings Mr. MacDonald emerged with a change of mind. The Government would loan R. A. F. pilots for racing and planes for training, but no money. The Royal Aero Club hurriedly planned...
...signers from England include Edmund Blunden, author of "Undertones of War"; Siegfried Sassoon, who wrote "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer"; Henry W. Nevinson, veteran war correspondent; H. M. Tomlinson, who was a war correspondent and also wrote "All Our Yesterdays." Among other signatories are H. G. Wells, Sir William Orpen. Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Leonard Woolf, G. D. H. Cole and the Bishop of Birmingham. New York Times
...time of the Battles of Messines (1917) Sassoon was in England recuperating from his wound. He had begun to be fed up with the War, finally decided he ought to do something about it. He wrote a formal statement of his refusal to return to the front (although he was not going to be sent back), "as an act of wilful defiance ot military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it." He sent this statement to his colonel, was immediately ordered to report. To the colonel...
...Sassoon writes quietly, with an effect of naivete that often cloaks irony. The naivete is superficial, the irony fundamental. When he was brought back to London after being wounded, his stretcher was taken off the train at Charing Cross Station, where "a woman handed me a bunch of flowers and a leaflet by the Bishop of London who earnestly advised me to lead a clean life and attend Holy Communion...
...Author. The Sassoons, rich, prominent Anglo-Jewish family (they are supposed to have originated in Bagdad) are said to resemble early Assyrian wall sculptures. Siegfried, 44, is son of Sir Edward Sassoon, Anglo-Indian merchant whose father-in-law was Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Siegfried's cousin Philip was Under-Secretary for Air. Tall, bony, loosely built, he has a big jaw, nose, ears, hands; speaks usually in a slow, troubled voice. After his country gentleman's education at Marlborough and The House (Christ Church, Oxford), he spent his time mostly hunting, playing cricket, tennis, music, printed a few poems...