Word: benchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Queen Elizabeth in the black silk robes of a barrister (she rated them as an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple) looked moderately Portia-like, completely queenly, in a portrait by James Gunn. She gazed with perfect aplomb at visitors to the Royal Academy's summer show in London; later, barristers would gaze back at her, permanently on a Middle Temple wall...
Conservative Back-Bencher Captain Victor Cazalet snorted that the Government, by mollycoddling the Arabs, risked giving the world an impression that Britain is "prepared to make terms with the enemy." Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair argued that the League of Nations should have been consulted, accused the Government of "presuming to be the judge of its own case...