Word: donnishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human race for the next million years. Such a man is Charles Galton Darwin, 65, grandson of the late great Charles Robert (The Origin of Species) Darwin, and former Master of Christ College, Cambridge. His just-published book, The Next Million Years (Doubleday; $2.75), is sugar-coated with flowing, donnish English, but it contains a bitter pill for people with faith in human progress. The ultimate future of the race, says Writer Darwin, will be much like its deplorable past...
Upstairs & Downstairs. In a parliamentary committee room where Labor leaders faced the rebel, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell put aside his donnish suavity for a hard go at Nye Bevan. "He hit me hard," said Gaitskell, "so I'm going to hit him back." Though many members sympathized with Bevan's argument that rearmament should not lower Britain's standard of living, they were angered by his threat to split the Labor Party. Under pressure, Bevan finally went along with his colleagues in a pledge not to take part in any action likely to endanger party...