Word: guv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Chamber of Commerce heard William Hulme Lever Viscount Leverhulme, governor of world-spraddling Lever Brothers, Ltd. (Lux, Lifebuoy Soap), tell about the perplexity of efficiency experts over a certain laborer, the only worker in a factory to pull, not push, his wheelbarrow. Asked why, the laborer said: "Well, guv'nor, hi 'ates the ight of the bloomin' thing...
...Governor Allred Convict Baker explained his nickname: "Wal, Guv'nor, when I first landed in de pen, I was chopping wood one day when we cut down an oak tree and a big limb hit me in de head. Dat limb broke, but I went right on workin'. So de boys call me Ironhead...
London publicity agents easily persuaded helpful Queen Mary to attend, in the space of a fortnight, the cinema premieres of The Ghost Goes West (see p. 57) and George Arliss' The Guv...