Word: baldwinism
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...away with a shaky memory ("ridiculous and dangerous," says Highet, "like . . . a doctor who gives one gram of digitalis instead of one grain. . . or a merchant who cannot find the goods his customers want"). And if he lectures in the stumbling, halting manner of a Stanley Baldwin, he runs the risk of having the same effect: "Half an hour of [it] put everybody to sleep. Several years of it put Britain to sleep...
...family had a bomber squadron scatter his ashes. The Church of England sanctioned ash-scattering in 1944, if disposal were on consecrated ground. No Britain of top prominence has yet availed himself of the method. Although the last two Archbishops of Canterbury were cremated, as was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, none asked that his ashes be scattered. (But South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts had his ashes scattered on a hill at his farm this week...
...whose hands the blood is on, it seems to me it's clearly on the hands of what Hanson Baldwin, the military commentator, calls the "busy-busy colonels making work" and careers for themselves...
...appeared next day, hat in hand, at the Statler. Warned in time's nick that the President was coming, League Commandant Clay Nixon, of Seattle, had ordered: "No wisecracks will be tolerated . . . You will behave like marines." The convention's official bugler, 70-year-old Herbert Baldwin, tried to blow Hail to the Chief, but his upper dentures slipped out, so he just blew Attention. ("It was all I could do under the circumstances...
...there was still a question as to how swiftly and smoothly the U.S. could mobilize in an emergency. Last week, as Congress was winding up work on the Defense Production bill, which blueprints such a mobilization along with necessary controls, the New York Times's military pundit Hanson Baldwin sourly commented: "Our economic mobilization agencies may well become a cluttered and administratively impossible mess...