Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These decisions-and similar ones involving, at one time or another, Shakespeare's King Lear, Wilde's Salome and Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado-were taken for British playgoers by the Lord Chamberlain who, along with such ancient duties as escorting the king to & from the royal carriage, has acted as Britain's theatrical censor since 1737. Last week the House of Commons debated a bill to end the censor's long engagement...
...onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: "Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...
...Among gouty notables: Kubla Khan, Alexander the Great; U.S. President James Buchanan, British Prime Ministers Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts, Neville Chamberlain; John Milton, Martin Luther, Tennyson, Benjamin Franklin, John Barrymore...
...Here is Britain's Edward VIII confessing that Wallis Simpson of Baltimore is "the woman I love"; here, as the dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers' "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"; the uninflected, almost casual voice of Joseph Stalin promising death to the invading Nazis, and the stentorian challenge of Churchill, rallying his little island against a continent...
Judges included Samuel Chamberlain, Richard W. Cartwright, and Gyorgy Kepes...