Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is an individualist of such reckless stamp that only chance kept him from the gallows until he attained the armor of prestige and power. A minor exploit of his youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings...
...Said Chancellor Churchill to Fascists: "If I had been an Italian I am sure I would have been wholeheartedly from start to finish with Fascismo's triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism...
Thus comes "Castles in the Air". It starts out in a Westchester country estate (favorite hunting ground for second acts) and then jumps squarely in the middle of Latavia, with a standing army, a villainous chancellor with mustachies, and all the sword-flashing and heel-clicking in the world. And there...
Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer: "I called upon Signor Mussolini at Rome last week, and succeeded in convincing newsgatherers of the purely social nature of my visit by going out to the ruined Baths of Caracalla daily and working hard to sketch and paint them, facile artist-statesman-soldier-author that...
Fitting indeed is the inaugurat ceremony attending the opening of the New England to London Transatlantic telephone service this morning. When President Lowell and Vice-Chancellor Weekes of Cambridge University speak to one another across the sea, the newest achievement of science will receive a fitting dedication. It is not that this most remarkable means of communication will benefit by the blessing of educational leaders in two countries; but rather that these same leaders can be relied upon to exchange greetings worthy to be remembered as the first vocal conversation between the New England...