Word: chamberlaine
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...aloof, too much the quiet, impenetrable aristocrat. He was not in any sense a guy Brooklyn would go for. Worse, he was a Chamberlain man-one of the men of Munich. Why had Churchill sent him, anyhow? Forecasting his mission, people called him "Lord Holy Fox" and quoted Anglophobe Quincy Howe: "England expects every American to do his duty...
...plushy main dining room of the Buenos Aires Plaza Hotel, the British Chamber of Commerce sat down to its monthly luncheon. Guest of honor: Viscount Templewood, the suave old Sir Samuel Hoare of Baldwin-Chamberlain diplomacy, visiting Argentina in the cause of British commerce. Also present: half the Argentine Cabinet. As the savory was cleared away and the Viscount rose to speak, an unidentified British businessman leaped from his place and yelled: "Now you can talk to these people as they should be talked...
David P. Jacobus '49--Elizabeth Chamberlain (Radcliffe...
Just how wrong, Murrow was only too glad to admit. In his calm, precise voice he recalled Munich, and Chamberlain's return, and ". . . Mr. Winston Churchill sitting there below the gangway, like the conscience of Britain...
...very long ago-in the year when Chamberlain waved his umbrella, crying "Peace in our time"-an unknown young woman was writing radio scripts, in Chicago. Her name was Craig Rice and she was all of 30. To her the era of peace just ending had meant a dozen years of bohemian life: three bungled attempts at marriage; innumerable failures to write poetry, novels and music; barely successful efforts to earn a living around newspapers ; and some definite progress in helping local bohemians support the distilling industry. This slightly dated era of peace-in-her-time was ended...