Word: ayrton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unheeded Plea. Mrs. Ayrton Gould, a Labor M.P., had her own objections to the death sentence. She said it demoralized prison personnel and made prison jobs repulsive to able people. She recalled the case of Edith Thompson, hanged 25 years ago for helping her lover dispose of her husband. Mrs. Thompson had fainted before her execution. Her limp body was dragged to the gallows. Said Mrs. Gould: "That execution was so horrible that after it, the hangman committed suicide,* one of the wardresses who was present went mad, and the chaplain had a very bad nervous breakdown; and every single...
Anti-Picassos had found new ammunition in an article by British Painter and Critic Michael Ayrton. As a painter, Ayrton admits Picasso's influence-even on himself. As a critic he consistently opposes it. He wrote (in New Writing and Daylight, New Directions...
...House of Commons last week, Labor M.P. Benn Levy asked if the Parliament dining-room menus could henceforth be printed in English instead of French. Promptly, Mrs. Ayrton-Gould gave Levy a quick lesson in French and economy. Said she: "May I point out to the Honorable Member . . . that hors d'oeuvres is described as 'an appetizing savoury of vegetables, fish, etc., served before the first course'. . . . It would not be easy to print this shortly and concisely on the menu...
...sharp attack by Mrs. Barbara Ayrton Gould on the Government's food policy, charging that it was devoted to traders' rather than consumers' interests and had led to scandalous maldistribution, failed to stir so much as a single response. Finally, by a heavy vote, the conference approved two vague, grandiose memorandums, one denouncing any idea of a negotiated peace, the other demanding the end of economic inequity after...