Word: chesterfielded
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...Tories' efforts at Chesterfield were less successful. While the party sent some of its biggest guns to help Candidate Bourne, the effort seemed less than wholehearted. From the Conservatives' viewpoint, a victory that would have added one more seat to an existing 144-seat majority in the House of Commons was only a little more desirable than the prospect of seeing Benn re-elected and reigniting left-right tensions in opposition ranks...
...largest field ever in British electoral history, and with 17 candidates in the race, the ceremonial reading of the results droned on and on. But Chesterfield's returning officer dutifully completed the list, noting without so much as a smile that Pop Singer Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party had won 178 votes and College Student Giancarlo Piccaro of the Official Acne Party (its avowed aim: eradication of the skin disorder) had somehow picked up 15 votes. The Conservative candidate, Nicholas Bourne, polled a disappointing 15%, while Max Payne, representing the Liberal-Social Democratic alliance, came...
...head of the pack was the Labor Party's Tony Benn, 58, spiritual leader of its militant left wing. Nine months after losing his Bristol seat in last year's general election, Benn was on his way back to Parliament, taking 46.5% of the Chesterfield by-election vote...
...Halpern and Mr. Johnson, which premiered on HBO Sunday and will be seen seven times through Sept. 13, presents Olivier as a cantankerous Jewish businessman inconsolable at the loss of Florence, his wife of 42 years. At the funeral, a prosperous-looking man in a chesterfield (Gleason) asks if he may drop a pink carnation in the grave. It seems that the stranger had met with Florence regularly but platonically during all those years. The remainder of the film is a conversation between the two in which their antipodal perceptions of the same woman-for Mr. Halpern...
GLUBIT: Zounds! Ofeely burk this jesting lamster who doth quilp and quark my Chesterfield? Ha! I do not reck his garf nor het his nausee ambro, swink a bristly sarsaparilla, and blue as dido cucumber. Lunk to it, blanked ordinary...