Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empress, who made "dear little Arthur" her pageboy. From knee breeches and gold lace Mr. Ponsonby grew up to be a Liberal politician, but his conscientious objection to the World War caused him to be ostracised by all his friends and he was forced into the Labor Party. Last week, as one of the staunchest intimates of the Prime Minister, Mr. Ponsonby, M. P., was created Baron...
...Only one other Labor peer was created last week, Major Dudley Leigh Aman, by profession a wireless expert, who did yeoman service as a speaker during the last General election. With Baron Ponsonby and Baron Aman the number of Laborites in the House of Lords is now 14, as against approximately 500 Conservatives and 90 Liberals. It had been rumored that Scot MacDonald would "advise" (i.e. instruct) the King to create 100 Labor peers, but the public excitement sure to follow such a perfectly justifiable move was deemed not worth risking until Labor has an overwhelming majority in the House...
...blinding rainstorm, in a gale strong enough to rip a ton of masonry from the grey and gothic west front of famed York Minster, Edward of Wales last week boarded the S. S. Kenilworth Castle at Southampton Docks, bound for Africa to resume the big game hunt which was interrupted 13 months ago by the critical illness of George V. Announced objective: the shooting of a two-horned rhinoceros, two or three male lions (H. R. H.'s previous bag contained only lionesses...
...holiday is ever a complete holiday for a member of the House of Windsor. At the Colonial Office last week reporters learned that, when he lands at Cape Town, H. R. H. is expected to visit Durban, scene of recent Zulu riots, in an attempt to calm Zulus before going north to kill lions...
Good Scotch Calvinists disapprove of Christmas, consider Christmas trees and Christmas presents to be popish and heathen things, savoring of idolatry. Scotch bairns wait for their toys till Hogmanay, New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve last week, Paisley children were up with the dawn, shouting under housewives' windows...