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...Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into little, vague Alfred Duff Cooper's place as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Duff Cooper became envoy to the French in tempestuous Algiers...
...Reverend Drummond Duff of Renfrewshire: "From the change in their demeanor, from the evident hardship we saw all around us, it is my conviction the Germans know they have lost the war. The German newspapers are sparing them nothing. They don't need to listen to the BBC to know what is happening to them...
Flato 's cuff had been extended liberally to Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller ($1,320). Oth er accounts receivable: Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ($585); Marlene Dietrich ($50); Gloria Laura Vanderbilt ($1,018); Gloria Swanson ($692); Mrs. Alfred G. Vander bilt ($1,096) ; Doris Duke Cromwell...
...have been much more so. . . . Some of our idioms and phrasings . . . that you have chosen are not as universally used as your article would indicate. For instance, whilst "on a rhubarb" is used somewhat, the more universal expression is "on a piece of cake" or "on a piece of duff." Then again, you attempt to give the degrees of fedupness in terms of "browned off," "cheesed off" and "brassed off," but actually there are no degrees of fedupness, for when you are fed up you are fed up, and that's all there...
...result that today it has many meanings and many applications. To "gen up" means to study. A fellow who purveys "gen" is known as a "gen wallah." If he dishes out good "gen," he is a "pukka gen wallah." If he dishes out bad "gen," then he is a "duff gen wallah...