Word: crippsian
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Patricia Strauss (Bevin & Co., TIME, July 7, 1941) might well have taken these words as the starting point for her valuable, fact-filled, respectful biography of Cripps. Long a worker within the British Labor Party and the wife of an ardent Crippsian (G. R. Strauss, Labor M.P. for North Lambeth), Author Strauss tries to show that the very lack of "finesse" and "political acumen" is what has made Cripps the hope of thousands of Englishmen. It is a position, she says, that he would lose only if "they came to suspect, even mistakenly, that he had lost his political naivete...
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