Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliament 15 years did Lord Beaverbrook see his old hobby horse E. F. T. come home a winner. Taking the stump with an alarm bell which rang every minute to indicate that $5,000 worth of foreign foods had gone into British mouths, he ranted through the general elections of 1931 with such good effect that Stanley Baldwin took over part of E. F. T. in the Conservative Party platform...
...Beaverbrook suffered another severe personal loss when Lady Beaverbrook, the handsome daughter of a Halifax army general, died after 21 years of happy married life. Thereafter the routine job of being a newspaper publisher became almost as boring as money grubbing. One day "the Beaver" locked his office and announced: "I am leaving the Daily Express and never coming back. You young fellows must carry on. Make it a great newspaper...
Principal executives like General Manager Ewart John Robertson run back and forth all day when "The Old Man" is in London. On the rare occasions when his Lordship goes to the Express, Manager Robertson (who met him as a bellboy carrying his bags into a Canadian hotel) has been known to see that all cigaret butts were removed from his path...
...reading bridge articles, because I notice that Y and Z always get the good hands, whereas poor old A and B usually only save a slam by preternatural cunning. I know so well what A and B feel." The two Beaverbrook sons are in the group-Max Jr., general manager of the Sunday Express, and Peter, who spends most of his time automobile racing...
...notions about 19th-Century history may have been slightly confused by recent Hollywood versions. Suez, for example, portrayed Ferdinand de Lesseps, who actually had two wives and ten children, as a lovesick young bachelor, and explained England's participation in his canal-building as the result of a General Election which never occurred. In Sixty Glorious Years, a dinner-table chat between Disraeli and Queen Victoria shows how the matter was actually handled. This reverence for the real is characteristic of a picture which is aimed at historical fidelity rather than romantic excitement, but often achieves both...