Word: comer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight to the fore in a great Trade Union Congress stamps a man as a comer. Moreover the widespread Transport Union of which Mr. Bevin is Secretary is one of the best vote getters in all Britain. Cor respondents saw in his leadership of 'Labor's reaction against "rationalization" last week a popular lever by which hefty Ernest Bevin may presently jack himself up to cabinet rank...
...join in hailing "Copey." He cannot be different at seventy from himself at sixty or at fifty. Doubtless he wears the same mustard suits, has the same temperamental aversion to drafts, the same outmoded predilection for Kipling and Dickens, and the same sadistic joy in making a late comer to his class or reading room miserable. He cannot have changed. And in days when second-rate academicians clutter the pages of "Who's Who" with learned degrees, and still bore their students; when university statisticians reckon in card catalogues the efficiency records of the faculty members, it is good...