Word: chamberlaine
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...deemed a beauty. From 1935 on, he poked into the hornets' nest of European power politics. He was for peace. He thought that big men, powerful men like himself should save the peace. By his own account he trotted back & forth between Göring and Chamberlain, doing all he could for peace in our time. When the German-Soviet Pact was announced, Wenner-Gren knew the jig was up. Three days before the war's outbreak he sailed in the Southern Cross. After the Athenia rescue he sailed to his island in the Bahamas...
...monastery on the Scottish lakeside, announced: "I have been investigating its presence quietly for many years, having a natural hesitance in letting my friends know that I believed in the existence of a fresh-water parallel of the sea serpent." After all, the Rt. Rev. Sir David was once chamberlain to Pope Pius...
...sputtering and growing dim. Of course this is not the first time since the Allied offensives in Africa and in Russia that temporary revivals of Nazi power have appeared. Nor is it the first time since 1939-or even the first time since the close of the Chamberlain administration-that the British have openly expressed a lack of confidence in the conduct of the war. But while Rommel had the English with their backs to the Mediterranean so often that both sides were becoming bored, he had never before finally and conclusively pushed them into it. And although the Soviet...
...carrots represent Vegetarian Cripps (called affectionately by his friends "Christ & Carrots"); the umbrellas represent the Chamberlain regime, to almost all of whose policies for Britain and the Empire he was long opposed...
Bender also defeated Howie Ezell, 6-2, 6-3. Ted Cohn vanquished Princeton's Bellows by 6-3, 6-3. In the doubles Hyde and Sorlien defeated Moore and Walker by 2-6, 6-3, 9-7; Chamberlain and Canada defeated Will Nichol and Orme Wilson, 6-4, 6-0; and Buttenheim and Conze defeated Burton and Cohn...