Word: ex-cabinet
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Conservative. The lone star upon the Conservative Party's horizon is ex-Cabinet Minister Winston Spencer Churchill, who is now a full-fledged Conservative. It was said that never before has the Party been so short of able leaders. Ex-Premier Stanley Baldwin is, however, the de jure leader of the Party, although the signs and portent were that "Winnie" was fast becoming the de facto leader...
...flood of ballots that is sure to drown somebody in November. They came to board the craft which they hoped would carry them safely upon the surface of the flood. They were a motley crew? a princess from Oceania, a learned historian-statesman from Massachusetts, a much investigated ex-Cabinet officer from Ohio and many less marked personages. They trooped into Public Hall, which may be called the Ark, to place themselves in the care of the astute pilot, William M. Butler, who may be called Noah. Only Calvin Coolidge must be left out of the simile to avoid blasphemy...
...about anything at all. . . . "I would like to see somebody else's name in the papers now and then-Jack Dempsey's or John Ringling's. . . . "I would go to a motion picture show if I could be sure I would not see pictures of an ex-Cabinet officer. . . . "If a man is too solemn, they'll think the whole weight of the world is on his shoulders. If he is gay, they'll think he is frivolous. The only thing to do is 'be ourself.'. . . "I have not a sore head...
Third, Winston S. Churchill, defeated Liberal candidate at the past election, but an ex-cabinet minister of multifarious portfolios, calmly threw a high-explosive word-bomb into the midst of the agitated political circle. With the full weight of the Rothermere press behind him, Mr. Churchill, often alluded to as "little Winnie," damned the Liberals and damned the Laborites and became, ipso facto, aligned with the Conservatives. He declared that the Labor Party will be invited to assume office on sufferance in order that "if they are violent they may be 'defeated, and if they are moderate they...