Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only of the 18 accomplished a "clean performance." This was Major Harry D. Chamberlain who is the son of an Army man; an instructor in the Fort Riley, Kan., military school; about 35; nervous when he is not sitting on a horse. On Dick Waring he took every fence, the little one at the start and the long jump near the the end, without knocking down or touching...
...cries warned that the Son of Heaven was entering the Shishinden from the North. To the South, all 'round the courtyard, spectators stiffened to immobility. Slowly the slender, spectacled Tenno paced up the steps of the Takamikura and sat down in his black lacquer chair. Pompously the Lord Chamberlain placed upon stands adjoining the Throne, the sacred Sword and Jewel, emblems and relics of the Sun Goddess, which, together with the Divine Mirror, attest the utter sanctity of the enthronement. Then a plain wooden baton was presented to the Tenno - "The Scepter...
...Himalayan Blunder." Since the whole ill-starred affair seems to have sprung from the blundering brain of Sir Austen Chamberlain, the duty of flaying him may properly be left to the press of his own country. Last week the Daily Express, an independent paper with strong leanings toward Sir Austen's own party (Conservative) said: "There is hardly a line in this long series of telegrams and despatches that does not betray a naive misunderstanding of all outside opinion and psychology such as Germany herself hardly surpassed in the days...
...committed the crowning blunder of formally alluding to them in an indirect, tantalizing manner before the House of Commons. These indefensibly premature remarks, amounting to an open boast that he had done something clever in secret which he was not yet prepared to reveal, placed upon Sir Austen Chamberlain personally an imputation of sheer obtuseness which his political enemies are now loudly tooting up and down England, in view of the approaching General Election...
When votes were counted Mr. Baldwin had 1,044, and his nearest rival, Scottish Nationalist Candidate Cunningham Graham 978. Prime Minister Baldwin succeeds his Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain as Lord Rector...