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Authors: Juliet Nicolson

The Great Silence (47 page)

 

marriage,
111
–14;

 

warservice,
113
;

 

and Diana’s drug-taking,
135
–6;

 

driving,
135
;

 

wheels invalid Diana,
136
–7;

 

on lark song on Western Front,
147
;

 

at Victory Ball,
148
;

 

Lloyd George confides in,
149

 

Cooper, Gladys,
35
,
45
,
193

 

cosmetic surgery
see
plastic surgery

 

cost of living: rise,
77

 

Cottingly fairies,
250

 

country life,
131
–2

 

Courtaulds (company),
178

 

Cox, General Charles (‘Fighting Charlie’),
119

 

Craddock, Harry,
185

 

Craiglockhart War Hospital, near Edinburgh,
66
–7

 

Cremation Society of England,
6

 

crime: among returned soldiers,
67
–8

 

Crystal Palace, London,
225

 

Cunard, Sir Bache,
152

 

Cunard, Emerald, Lady,
152
,
216

 

Curie, Marie,
28

 

Curzon, Lady Cynthia (‘Cimmie’),
35
,
228

 

Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess,
116
,
162
,
258

 

D×il Éireann: established,
77

 

Daily Herald
,
73

 

Daily Mail:
sends Christmas puddings to troops,
15
;

 

censorship,
20
;

 

on dances,
154
;

 

on jazz bands,
158
;

 

Ideal Home Exhibition (1920),
206
;

 

sponsors wireless broadcasting,
214

 

Daily Mail Cookbook
,
207

 

Daily Telegraph:
on Devonshire House ball,
227

 

Dalton’s (club), Leicester Square,
160

 

dancing: popularity,
151
–8

 

Dancing Times
(magazine),
154

 

Davidson, Emily,
2

 

Davies, George Llewellyn,
264

 

Day Lewis, Cecil
see
Lewis, Cecil Day

 

death: Collins on nature of,
8

 

debutantes,
104

 

Del Cot (London store),
176

 

demobilisation,
69
,
70
,
73
–4,
76
–7,
188

 

Desborough, Ethel Anne Priscilla (Ettie), Lady: loses sons in war,
5
,
14
;

 

and Armistice,
37
;

 

congratulates Violet Elliot (Astor) on remarriage,
46

 

de Veulle, Mr (dressmaker and actor),
133
-4

 

Devonshire, Evelyn Emily Mary, Duchess of,
7
,
46
,
221

 

Devonshire, Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of: property and estates,
221
-9

 

Devonshire House, Piccadilly,
195
,
221
–2,
227
–9,
231

 

Diaghilev, Serge,
34
,
36
,
215
–17

 

Dickens & Jones (London department store),
177

 

Didion, Joan,
4

 

Dinham, Sergeant Jack,
22

 

disablement: pensions,
47
;

 

treatment and compensation,
47
–8

 

disfigurement (ex-soldiers): repair and concealment,
48
-56;
see also
faces

 

disillusionment,
129

 

dissatisfaction,
123
–8

 

divorce: rise in,
44

 

Dormeuil, Edmée,
149

 

Dowson, Ernest,
241

 

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan,
33
,
97
,
250
–1

 

Doyle, Kingsley,
97

 

Doyle, Louisa,
97

 

dress: among poor,
132
,
207
;

 

informality,
158
-9

 

Dreyfus, Alfred,
220

 

drinking,
49
,
184
–5

 

drugs (recreational),
133
–6,
160

 

Drummond, Canon,
158

 

Drusilla’s (tea shop and zoo), East Sussex,
200
-1

 

Dudley Ward, Freda,
164
,
181

 

Duff Gordon, Lucy,
30
,
123
,
184

 

Durham, Bishop of
see
Moule, Handley Carr Glyn

 

Earle, Lionel,
231

 

Education Act (1918),
201

 

Edward VII, King,
7

 

Edward, Prince of Wales: watches erotic performance in Calais,
24
;

 

friendship with Gladys Cooper,
45
;

 

meets resentful returned troops,
72
;

 

on murder of Russian royal family,
82
;

 

role and activities,
128
–9;

 

on Queen Alexandra’s unpunctuality,
141
;

 

visit to USA and Canada,
145
,
162
–4;

 

dancing,
153
;

 

and Freda Dudley Ward,
164
,
181
;

 

women friends,
164
;

 

public commitments,
166
;

 

on Christmas,
180
;

 

proposed tour of Australia,
181
;

 

returns from overseas tour (October 1920),
258

 

Edwards, John,
59

 

electorate (parliamentary): increased,
74

 

electricity: in home,
206

 

Eliot, Thomas Stearns,
127
-8,
179
,
189
,
218
,
236
-7;

 

The Waste Land
,
128
,
218
,
265

 

Eliot, Vivien,
127
,
218
,
236

 

Ellieson Carrier Electric Invalid’s Carriage,
47

 

Elliot (under-keeper at Beeley),
225

 

Endurance
(ship),
150
–1

 

Ennever, William Joseph,
98

 

Eton College: war casualties,
15

 

Evening Standard
,
190

 

Everest, Elizabeth (Churchill’s nanny),
222

 

Ewart, William,
100

 

Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society,
67

 

faces: and masks for disfigured soldiers,
52
-5;

 

repaired by plastic surgery,
56
-63

 

Fairbanks, Douglas,
228

 

Farr, Mrs (of Somerset),
19

 

Fascist Party: formed in Italy,
106

 

fashion (women’s),
173
–6

 

Feisal, Emir,
114

 

films (movies),
8
;
see also
cinema

 

Fingall, Elizabeth Mary, Countess of,
37

 

Finnigan, Alfred,
21

 

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
163
,
186
;

 

This Side of Paradise
,
187

 

Fitzgerald, Zelda,
187

 

Fitzhardinge, Charles Paget Fitzhardinge, 3rd Baron,
20

 

Fitzmaurice, Charles,
7

 

Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy,
140
–1

 

flying and aircraft,
9
,
105
,
150

 

Foch, Marshal Ferdinand,
252

 

Follis (Scarborough hairdresser),
192
–3

 

food and eating,
185
-6,
202
-4,
206
,
211

 

Fortnum & Mason (shop),
192

 

France: and German war reparations,
107

 

Freedman, Henry,
209

 

Freud, Sigmund,
63
;

 

Mourning and Melancholia
,
5

 

Frohman, Charles,
186

 

Fry, Roger,
36

 

Fulham Chronicle
,
155

 

Gance, Abel,
219
–20

 

Garnett, David,
36
–7,
132

 

Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire,
34
,
137
,
233
-8,
249

 

gas (poison),
18

 

General Election: December 1918 (’Coupon Election’),
44
,
74
–5

 

George V, King: accession,
2
;

 

friendship with de Soveral,
11
;

 

on homosexuality in war,
24
;

 

attends Hyde Park assembly of returned soldiers,
72
;

 

shame and guilt over foreign relatives,
82
;

 

adopts surname Windsor,
83
;

 

anti-German sentiments,
83
;

 

beard turns white,
87
;

 

and wife’s dress,
88
;

 

and signing of Versailles Treaty,
108
; and Peace Parade,
110
; T. E. Lawrence offends,
116
; invitation to Lowell Thomas,
118
;

 

sees Lowell Thomas’s film on T. E. Lawrence,
120
;

 

and role for Prince of Wales,
128
;

 

hopes for memories of war to recede,
139
;

 

and act of remembrance,
141
;

 

attends Original Dixieland Jazz Band performance,
156
–7;

 

welcomes Prince of Wales back from overseas tour,
162
–3;

 

and burial of unknown soldier,
266
–7,
269
,
271
,
273
;

 

lays wreath at Cenotaph,
272

 

Germany: defeat (1918),
28
,
30
;

 

British hostility to,
83
–5;

 

Communism and unrest in,
83
,
106
,
219
;

 

post-war conditions,
83
–4,
108
,
219
;

 

and Versailles Treaty,
107
–8;

 

war reparations,
107

 

Gertler, Mark,
34
,
234
,
237
,
250

 

Gibbs, Philip,
4
,
16
,
19
-20,
67
,
83
,
127
;

 

Realities of War
,
127

 

Gillies, (Sir) Harold Delf: plastic surgery,
55
–63,
252
–3;

 

Prince of Wales visits,
128
;

 

leaves Sidcup,
252
;

 

Plastic Surgery of the Face
,
254

 

Gillies, Kathleen, Lady,
252

 

Giordaneo, Arturo (Arthur),
186

 

Gish, Lillian,
205
-6

 

Glasgow: shipyard strike and unrest (1919),
78
–9;

 

housing shortage,
80

 

Glorious Adventure, The
(film),
251

 

Gomme, Lionel (‘Tiger’),
238
–40,
249

 

Goodbye Winter, Welcome Summer
(Houdini’s show),
187

 

Gordon, Jackson,
187

 

Grace, Dr W G.,
105

 

Grafton Galleries, Piccadilly,
153

 

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