Word: blimpish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lords' power of veto went in 1911, but they could still delay legislation. Labor was out to clip this delaying period from two years to one. The Lords suspected another aim: to draw the Lords' last teeth and leave the hereditary House as a Blimpish appendage-or even abolish it altogether...
Peace was the sickly hatred Churchill described, and peace was other things: the Colonel Blimpish British mine owner who looked forward to the return of unemployment as a cure for the contagion of absenteeism (sometimes 40 percent) which broke out whenever big sports events nearby attracted his work-weary miners; the farmer (of military age) hopefully sowing his field on which a tank rusted, near Saint-Lô, Normandy (see cut); the profound, silent distrust of eleven-year-old Filomena Carciopoli, of Puzzuoli, Italy, who sullenly concealed her starving seven-month-old sister under a bed so they could...
...upon himself-very much without diplomatic portfolio-to go to Berlin in order to refute some popular German lies about British mistreatment of Boer prisoners. A café quarrel leads to a duel, thanks to which young Candy 1) gets the wound which causes him to raise his Blimpish mustache, 2) makes a lifelong friend of his unwilling opponent (Anton Walbrook), 3) loses, to this Prussian officer, a charming English girl (Deborah Kerr) whom he has shyly begun to love...
...Picture. A young Home Guard officer decides to show his Blimpish superiors that the younger generation is fed up with playing old-fashioned war games. The young officer's orders are to begin the war at midnight, but he and his men start at 6 p.m., rush to London and capture the Home Guard General in a Turkish bath. The young officer looks down on the towel wrapped about Blimp's droopy paunch and says: "Well, all I can say, Sir, is that when Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach. . . ." From his full, majestic, nude height...
...Blimpish Conservative Sir William Davison attempted conciliation: "Is it desirable," he began, "that Democracy be made a laughingstock by such a frivolous attack on the Prime Minister...