Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their girls-a few clerks; a few debutantes, and many a "five-shilling touch" from Piccadilly in full war paint. Hedda Hopper of Hollywood was there (in one of her hats). So were Wellington Koo, Sir John (now Viscount) Simon, Lord & Lady Mountbatten and General Spaatz. With cautious restraint, Clement and Mrs. Attlee sipped gin and lemon. Herbert Morrison wandered pixy-like and alone through the garden to the huge refreshment tent, sampling a brave but pallid collation of austerity sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres. Through it all stood friendly, broad-shouldered Ambassador Averell Harriman, shaking hands with each...
...songs, wears caps instead of hats and loves his family), Gottwald had worked and waited for this moment. There was no doubt about how the new tenant would like to run things. Communist Gottwald's philosophy of politics might well have been inspired by the words of St. Clement (Rome's fourth Pope), after whom his pious family had named him: "Discipline and subordination are necessary as in an army . . . for man is nothing...
George VI of England became the first British monarch to crash Chicago-published Who's Who in America. Among 8,918 other newcomers to the 1946-47 edition: Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Chiang Kaishek, Charles de Gaulle. Longest entry: International Business Machines Corp. President Thomas J. Watson's 155 lines, an alltime record. Baby of the book: nine-year-old Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien. Missing: many generals and admirals, who had had two editions (1942-45) of glory...
...finals, Pauline sailed into fellow-Californian Brough, with Queen Mary and Prime Minister Clement Attlee looking on. She won, 6-2, 6-4. The doubles were a triple triumph for California...
Prime Minister Clement Attiee told a silent, disappointed meeting that nationalization of industry (see below) must not be pushed too fast ("We must not overload the legislative and administrative machine...