Word: clarenceux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chattering peers and peeresses, red-robed judges and black-robed bishops fell silent when the royal procession filed into the House of Lords, headed by heralds and medieval figures like the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, Bluemantle Pursuivant and Clarenceux King-of-Arms...
...centuries, the overwhelming majority of British M.P.s had voted as they talked, but Grossman & Co. let it be known that if Prime Minister Attlee forced the issue they would not vote to censure the Foreign Secretary. Socialist Attlee, as much a part of the British tradition as any Clarenceux King-of-Arms, promptly forced the issue-on an amendment sponsored by 58 Laborites who wanted a "softer" British foreign policy. When Attlee made the vote a question of confidence in the Government, none of the 58 voted for the amendment and it was beaten...
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