Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important factor in the evening's work remains Martyn Green, who is offered by the opera precisely the proper balance of singing and "business." Instead of the constant mugging of Ko-Ko or the small opportunities of the part of Major General Stanley, Green as the Lord Chancellor in "Iolanthe" has "When you're Lying Awake," "Faint Heart Never Won," and "I said to Myself, Said I" to sing as well as some of his most entertaining business...
...pamphlet, In This Faith We Live, has a foreword by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps and the signatures of a good cross-section of government M.P.s. Early in 1947 members of the new group began to meet informally to discuss ways & means of injecting more practical Christianity into politics. Last November they sent a letter to the Times which drew such a response that they decided to publish the present twelve-page statement of faith...
...another headache. They fear, and feel, that Europe is moving to the right, that Socialism is losing weight on the Continent. Many of them seem to want a Socialist United States of Europe or none at all. In Paris last fortnight, at a convention of European Socialists, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Daiton told why he and other Labor M.P.s who shared his views would boycott The Hague conference. Said Dalton: "As Socialists we must make sure that the success of the Socialist policy ... is not jeopardized by the premature creation of a political union . . . The federation of Europe...
...Though far from the best hoax in university history. Cantabrigians would rank higher the fictitious Sultan of Zanzibar (the late William Horace de Vere Cole, brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain), who, in 1910, bamboozled the Vice Chancellor into entertaining him at tea. The record at Oxford appears to belong to "George Psalmanazar" (real name unknown), who palmed himself off, in 1704, as an authority on the language of Formosa, published a fake Formosan geography and history, taught at Oxford for six months, was not exposed until four years later...
...succeeded Robert M. Hutchins in the job almost three years ago. Hutchins stepped up to the specially created post of chancellor, which makes him still boss...