Word: ewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presence of the Americans on the floor during the debate broke a lifelong, 121-year-old Union tradition. Since the days (1830) when William Ewart Gladstone was its secretary,*the Union has firmly confined its visitors of every rank to the gallery...
...Henry Ponsonby made a career of tact. The Queen had a virulent hatred of what she termed the "communistic" fantasies of "desperate radicals"-by which she meant Home Rule for Ireland, Reform of the House of Lords and her Liberal arch-antagonist and recurrent Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone was at once a passionate monarchist, reformer, and pillar of brazen endurance. Monarch and monarchist battled for 20 years. Much of the time the widowed Queen was unpopular with her subjects because she insisted on secluding herself in her country palaces...
...months ago, that Bernard Law Montgomery had walked into Cairo's crowded Shepheard's Hotel. Few people noticed the man who had come from England to boss the demoralized Eighth Army. He had been second choice for the job, after the death of Lieut. General William Henry Ewart ("Strafer") Gott. Outside military circles, the scrawny, gimlet-eyed little man was unknown...
...nickname was "Strafer." Built like a horse, at 44 one of the youngest officers to hold his rank, he commanded the British 13th Corps in Libya. His full name and title: Lieut. General William Henry Ewart Gott, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. World War I veterans who remembered the Germans' Gott strafe England gave him the nickname...
...Benjamin Disraeli (on hearing from William Ewart Gladstone that "you will come to your end either upon the gallows or of a venereal disease"): "I should say, Mr. Gladstone, that depends upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...