Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaning nonchalantly on the platform railing was plump, pale-eyed Stanley Baldwin, Britain's Prime Minister. While the Bishop prayed, Prime Minister Baldwin mumbled in response and read through his own speech, preoccupied, apparently oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion. Prayers over, he mounted the rostrum. Cocking his head on one side, shooting out his under jaw, he began...
...Lloyd George won't beat us?Ramsay won't defeat us?but Apathy might!" was the slogan of a Conservative poster widely displayed through Britain's general elections campaign (TIME, May 27). Last week, as the campaign closed, the word Apathy was repeated again and again by political writers...
...Owen Seaman, who is approaching 70 and has edited "the most noted humorous magazine in the world" for 23 years, may consider the matter of Britain's next Prime Minister unimportant...
What little excitement the closing days of the campaign held was provided by pugnacious, Virginia-born, Viscountess Nancy Astor. For several days Britain debated whether or not: 1) Lady Astor had knocked a Labor organizer's hat off at Plymouth. 2) Lady Astor's sister, Mrs. Paul Phipps, had received a nasty blow in the pit of the stomach from a young woman Laborite carrying a baby...
...that the proper state authorities will thereafter see to it that the treaty is recorded, remembered, honored, enforced -or abrogated if necessity impels. Not so lightly do 186 British and U. S. ministers and educators regard the so-called Kellogg Treaty lately solemnized in Paris between the U. S., Britain and 13 other nations, renouncing war. The 186, deeming this a super-treaty worthy of super-ratification, signed and last week issued a super-pledge called a "British-American Message to the Churches and to All People of Good Will." They said they accepted the Kellogg Treaty "in spirit...