Word: duff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical of official miscuing were the statements that Britain's Ministers made throughout the week. Said Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper, two days after Hess's capture was announced: "His arrival here shows the first breach in the Nazi Party . . . since Hitler murdered a huge bloc of his own followers on June...
...Glasgow hospital to mend his broken ankle. He was removed to "an unspecified destination." The British Ministry of Information identified the airman prisoner. Then it bided its time, waited for the Germans to break its story. When the hallucination-disappearance yarn came from Berlin, Minister Alfred Duff Cooper and his men called in the London newspapermen on Monday night and. dancing with excitement, broke this war's, or any other war's, most incredible tale of desertion. It was as if Harry Hopkins or Anthony Eden had suddenly flown to Germany, but the in credible arrival was augustly...
...have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained with out loss of a single food coupon. ... I have watched the great as they dine -Morrison, Beaverbrook, Duff Cooper and Eden among them...
...Glory and Little Women, which capped her early Hollywood success, she was full of the eager, well-bred enthusiasm she absorbed in a free-thinking but socially impeccable Hartford, Conn, family. Then in two dreary cinemadapted James Barrie plays, she slid into interpretations as heavy and lifeless as plum duff. Two years ago, she and Hollywood called it quits...
Britain's press lords Beaverbrook (Daily Express), Camrose (Daily Telegraph), Astor (London Times), Southwood (Daily Herald), as well as Poet John Masefield and Information Minister Duff Cooper, ex-Prime Minister Baldwin, last week sent birthday congratulations to Britain's oldest newspaper, Berrow's Worcester Journal, founded in 1690 when William and Mary reigned in Merry England...