Word: calmest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While these lines might indeed achieve a noble and sonorous effect when sung by a great chorus, sincere admirers of Kipling sadly reflected that a generation has passed since his genius alone was sufficient to set mighty rhythms beating in the blood of even his calmest readers...
Liberal Whip David Lloyd George popped many a stinging comment in his coarsest and least happy vein. Labor Whip Ramsay Macdonald egged on J. H. Thomas, usually one of the calmest Laborites, to make no less than twelve disparaging orations. Meanwhile sleepy members formed quartets and sang the U. S. Civil War ditty "John Brown's Body" to keep awake. Recitations of "Pop Goes the Wease"? were loudly applauded in the lobbies, while one right honorable member chanted...