Word: asquiths
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...years, the union had never seen anything quite like Shuman. It had been headed by such men as Gladstone and Asquith, had been the training ground of hundreds of M.P.s, had heard the best brains of Britain in its debates. But never had it seen anyone rise in debate garbed in a U.S. lumberjacket and red baseball cap, and self-billed as "the original public schoolboy-from the public schools of Morrison, Illinois...
...George, left-leaning Liberal daughter of a famed Liberal father, lost the parliamentary seat she had held for 22 years. But her brother, Gwilym Lloyd-George, styling himself a Liberal Conservative, got elected. ¶ In Colne Valley, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, right-leaning Liberal daughter of another Prime Minister, Asquith, and a friend for whom Churchill himself had campaigned, went down to defeat...
Talk About Fun. "It is a pity," remarked Britain's Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith in 1915, "that Winston hasn't a better sense of proportion ... I don't think that he will ever climb to the top in English politics." If the prophecy was a poor one, the charge was just. Young Churchill, a rough rider in Cuba before Teddy Roosevelt ever got there, author, soldier, hero and cabinet minister all before he reached the age of 40, never did get the knack of seeing things from the narrow perspective of lesser men. Where they...
...needn't follow Asquith's career any further. Suffice it to say that he is now a full professor, and safely on tenure. In an amusing note the other day he wrote: "I don't intend to do another stroke of work in my life." Such is the result of Harvardmanship...
...school, like FitzJames and Asquith, carried all before them in the academic field, but modern theory regards them as somewhat limited. They were famed as men of casual genius in their studies, but they worked so hard maintaining these reputations that they had no time for entertainment, or women, or anything else for that matter. They were no complete Harvardmen...