Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manifestation" in television history. A local Unitarian minister wondered: Could it have been saliva from the girl's lips? The head was porous and had been left outdoors: Had it been exuding moisture? Shirley Anne had her own simple answer: "God made it cry for some reason." The chancellor of the Syracuse Diocese was cautious; as others had done, he conceded that moisture seemed to show on St. Anne's face when Shirley Anne kissed it, hastened to add that "the explanation of the fact, or its significance, has not been established...
...present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when a bomb strikes London's Carlton Club, rendezvous of generations of Conservative politicians. Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne Pater Anchises from the ruins of Troy...
...only cheers in the House of Commons were voiced when a white china pitcher, containing orange juice, was carried in for the abstemious Chancellor to sip during his long speech. In the expectant silence that followed, the House could hear the click of the key as Cripps unlocked his dispatch case-the same battered red leather case which had held Britain's budgets since Gladstone...
Cripps began to read in a firm, precisely modulated voice, and listeners' faces lost the look of pleased anticipation. The news that the Chancellor brought forth from the dispatch case was almost...
Writing on the Wall. Labor M.P.s, thinking of the 1950 general elections, groaned or sat stunned. One Laborite mourned: "It's the end of the revolution." A sarcastic Tory dubbed Cripps "The Iron Chancellor...