Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there been less gun-firing and more tongue-clattering than last week. One after another, high-calibre speechmakers like Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, George VI, Albert Lebrun, Georgi Dimitroff, Clement Attlee, the Pope, Viscount Halifax, the King of the Belgians, the Queen of The Netherlands, Neville Chamberlain plus generals, dopesters and yes-men sounded off, until old David Lloyd George complained that you did not ask who was winning the war nowadays, but who had said what...
...reader W.B. Smith's suggestion is followed, "Chamberlain" would be a suitable synonym. Or was aid furnished to Poland as promised. I missing news...
...marriage, Princess Marie was not long in mastering the arts of Balkan intrigue. She quickly allied herself with the powerful bourgeois Bratianu family which had founded the modern Kingdom of Rumania by revolting against Turkish rule in 1877. Princess Marie's favorite soon became Prince Barbu Stirbey, Chamberlain of the King's Household and, more important, brother-in-law of Ion Bratianu. Prince Ferdinand came to the throne in 1914, a weakling from the start, and thereafter the real power in Rumania was lodged in the hands of the Bratianus, Prince Stirbey and Queen Marie...
...series of drawings made by Artist Theo Matejko for the official German Army journal Die Wehrmacht. They represented "official German eyewitness accounts" of the bombing of Ark Royal during an air raid on the British Home Fleet in the North Sea last September. Official British report by Prime Minister Chamberlain: "No British ship was damaged. . . . All of them, Ark Royal included, are carrying out their normal duties, sublimely unconscious of these rumors...
Members of the Prime Minister's house hold "revealed" to the United Press that when Neville Chamberlain is tuckered out after a hard day at the office, he relaxes by crooning Negro spirituals in a Birmingham baritone...