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