Word: driberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemactress Jane Russell "is profoundly, indeed, apocalyptically, interested in the future state of the world-her approach being religious (though not ecclesiastical) rather than political." So, in his weekly newspaper column, announced awed Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg, who had been showing Visitor Russell around Parliament. "She has studied the Bible and its interpretation deeply. In her mother's garden in California, she told me, she and a group of other young people have built a chapel; down there, among the eucalyptus trees, strictly for prayer . . . Crowds of them come in every evening...
...DRIBERG, M.P. London
...What Trapper Driberg innocently calls a "possibly outmoded derivation" the Oxford English Dictionary labels "an ingenious but baseless conjecture...
...fortnight ago, peppery Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg let fall some pretty gossip in his Reynolds News column concerning a possible marriage between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, who fought in the British Navy during the war, and who will take British citizenship in February. The Prince, said Driberg, is "intelligent and broadminded, fair and good-looking...
Last week, after gibes by fellow Laborites that he was a "monarchist" who had sold out and "joined in building up the royal wedding ballyhoo," Driberg felt constrained to defend his besmirched leftist reputation by leaning over backward so far he reached almost from Buckingham Palace to Billingsgate. Said Driberg...