Word: chiltern
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Penance. That same evening, some of the high Laborites saw the cinema première of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a play about a British official who had sold a Cabinet secret to a stockbroker. For Dalton, unlike Sir Robert Chiltern of Wilde's play, there was no happy ending-at least not immediately. His old rival, Sir Stafford Cripps, became, in addition to his other duties, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Britain last week lifted a ban on the railway transport of spring flowers. From Scotland the first boxes of snowdrops went south. The first gorse glinted gold on the Chiltern Hills. London's Hyde Park was carpeted with purple crocuses which lovers crushed, unmindful of the grunts of passersby...
...member of Britain's Parliament may resign or be fired. A member may vacate his seat by becoming Steward or Bailiff of His Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds, may be eased out of the House by being appointed to the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead. There is no salary attached to these jobs and no work...
...personal reasons to leave this island when it is threatened with invasion-for that is not representative of the British people. It is only representative of the rat. If members apply for an exit permit, except for Government business, they should be forced to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds.* Moreover, unless they return to their country in its hour of need, they should forfeit their [British] nationality...
...There is no provision in British law for resigning from the House of Commons, but a member loses his seat by elevation to the peerage or taking a post such as one of the virtually imaginary stewardships of the Chiltern Hundreds, nominal jobs with token pay and no duties...