Word: alec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alec" and "Andrei." Hearty, handsome Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius grappled with such matters all week. As host to the 39 diplomats (ten Russians, eleven Britons, 18 Americans), he felt the impulse to introduce a little fun-&-games into the delegates' off-hours...
...relief of the underprivileged," and 3) reached "the acme of refined cruelty . . . when Mr. Cromwell's valet . . . was compelled to wait several hours . . . because Mr. Cromwell's bedroom was occupied by his successor in his wife's affections." (Members of Parliament roasted playboy Member Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid for playing with Doris in Hawaii during London's blitz.) Cromwell denied the desertion and cruelty charges on which Doris won her Reno case, demanded that the New Jersey courts nullify the divorce. He also recommended that Doris herself disown it as a fraud...
...Machine) have all taken part in what might be called a new constitutional convention of the spirit. They have been busy conducting such an argument about "rights," "powers," "duties," the nature of a federal system, and what not, that if Jimmy Madison, Long Tom Jefferson and Alec Hamilton were to return to earth they would feel themselves right at home. It is not too much to say that U.S. intellectuals in 1943 went out and ratified the Constitution all over again. But some of them had semantic reservations...
...Captain Alec S. Cunningham-Reid, M.P., divorced Social Lioness Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley in 1940 and sued for half her $400,000 annual income. One thing he could not forget about their honeymoon was her insistence that they share her wealth because "no decent woman likes to have a man live with her in charity." Later that year, M.P.s accused the Captain of visiting Doris Duke Cromwell in Honolulu to duck the Blitz. He said he went to evacuate 500 British children. Minister of Information Brendan Bracken called it "beachcombing in Honolulu...
...begowned Sir Gilbert Campion, rose and pointed silently at National Liberal George Lambert, M.P. since 1891. Lambert then proposed Colonel the Rt. Hon. Douglas Clifton Brown, an Old Etonian, veteran of the First Dragoon Guards and the Northumberland Hussar Yeomanry, and Deputy Speaker since 1938. Smart aleck Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish . . . Nonsense . . . Shame" greeted...