Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded House of Lords one day last week, more than 200 barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses and dukes sat like sardines. The noble lords were aroused. Shaking his mittened hands, 83-year-old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood inveighed against tyranny. Cried he: "What happened in Berlin yesterday and Moscow today may well happen in London tomorrow!" What was up? It was the perennial question: Would the ornamental House of Lords be allowed to continue their nothing-in-particular in Clem Attlee's day as they had in Wellington...
...From Cecil to Cecil. For centuries the House of Commons had been whittling away at the Lords' powers. Now the Socialist government was at it. The 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...
Against this latest encroachment the Conservative Lords were arrayed in depth. Up rose another Cecil-slim Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of Salisbury, one of England's ablest peers.* The history and traditions of twelve Salisbury generations were behind him. The first earl had been a trusted minister of Queen Elizabeth. The third marquess had been one of Victoria's prime ministers. Now long-nosed "Bobbety" Cecil was demanding that the Labor government withdraw its bill...
...best things about the screen production are the sets (by Vincent Korda), the costumes (by Cecil Beaton), and the exquisitely muted Technicolor. Most of the casting and acting are good too. The weakest things are the uneven reading of the lines, the lethargic pace, and the final visual essence of the picture...
...second story on Princeton, the Trib hit Rhodes Scholars for "influencing public opinion on Britain's behalf." Founder Cecil Rhodes "plotted the idea of a secret society to extend British rule to recapture America for the king...