Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy made a perfectly timed entrance. The bronzed, white-maned picture of health at 77, David Lloyd George walked slowly along the Opposition's front bench and took his customary seat at the end. Getting there, he stumbled over the outstretched legs of Opposition Leader Laborite Major Clement Richard Attlee...
...with the shilly-shallying war policy hitherto pursued and were about to bolt from the ranks. "What we want is a real War Cabinet with someone at the top who can decide a question. . . . We are meandering and muddling through the war making excuses and boasting," criticized Government Supporter Clement Davies, M. P. In fine English sarcasm he assured Mr. Chamberlain that if Hitler had missed the bus, it was because he "too often takes a taxi...
...Representing unemployed Welsh coal miners, Liberal National Clement Davies, M. P. chimed: "It is quite obvious to me that we are waging two wars in this country. The first is against the enemy and the other against the upholders of the doctrine of laissez faire." The whole German press soon screamed at Sir John Simon under such headlines as "NEW TAX BURDENS ON MASSES-PLUTOCRATS SPARED...
...little known as the defunct Federal League is tightlipped, bespectacled Clement Schwener, manager of the safe-deposit vaults of Boston's U. S. Trust Co. Kilterless baseball schedules of 25 years ago annoyed his mathematical mind...
...appendix is still marked "Do not disturb"; but many another is no longer at home. Last week a famed specialist suggested (by implication) that more than one appendectomy he knows about was no better than a kidnapping. Several years ago, Mayo Clinic's famed Digestion Expert Walter Clement Alvarez started a notebook in which he collected experiences of patients whose appendixes had been reft from them. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association he told what he had learned from 385 patients. Of these, 130 had suffered at least one sharp bellyache "suggesting appendicitis," and after...