Word: chamberlaine
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Miraculously enough, nine midfielders have appeared on the business school field. Paul Davidson and Fred Chamberlain, last year's Freshman attack star and Freshman goalie bobbed up in the second wave against M.I.T., with J.V. footballer Will Davis in the third midfield...
...Marjorie Chamberlain of Purley, near London, had a nanny goat named Gertie and two kids named Snitch and Snatch. She also had a one-eyed, champion egg-laying duck named Belinda, and a Derby racing car. All these chattels needed housing...
...decided to build a goathouse first. But Mrs. Chamberlain reckoned without the small, slow grinding of the bureaucratic mills. Her application for a timber license bounced back & forth for 13 weeks, among six different government agencies. Baffled and angry, Mrs. Chamberlain wrote to the newspapers. Last week her story rang across all England...
...House of Commons, Richard Hurd, Conservative M.P. for the Newbury division of Berkshire, heckled Labor Works Minister Charles W. Key about the delay in granting Mrs. Chamberlain's permits "in connection with essential food production." "Is the Minister aware," asked Hurd, who quite understandably had got confused about the timing of events, "that while this tomfoolery has been going on [opposition cheers], this goat has produced two kids...
...publicity had stirred Key's subordinates into action. Next day, permits in hand, Mrs. Chamberlain placed an order for the goathouse...