Word: guv
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worker's cap. "It's not that we object to the machine so much," Alf said. "We're all for the machine just so it don't replace us and make us-" he groped for a 10-bob word-"and make us redundant. But the guv'nor [the boss] just put it on without consulting us and laid off those men. We can't allow that...
...London dockers, employed by Butler's Wharf Ltd., who went on a brief strike last week when the "guv'nor" put to work a British-made forklift truck (a mobile, automatic stacking machine) to help the men unload grapes, lemons and Dutch cheese. Observing that the machine enabled one man to do the work of three, the guv'nor laid off 14 men from a team of 21. The strike followed; the dockers returned only when the machine was withdrawn, pending negotiations...
...narrow curb opposite Westminster's Central Hall. They stand there, watching and silent, as the delegates come & go, waiting for something, asking the simple questions that all men ask. Peace or war? Want or plenty? Or, more likely in Westminster these days: "What's up, guv'ner? Those blokes getting anywhere...
Last week the Guv'nor traveled to "Spouter's Corner" in Hyde Park (London's Union Square) to explain the theory and practice of house snatching. Before his speech, Cowley's Brighton boys gave a practical demonstration by "snatching" an empty house in London's Maida Vale for an Army gunner's wife and sick daughter. Said the Guv'nor grimly: the Vigilantes had put their fingers on one of Britain's aching nerves; from all over the country requests were pouring in for the formation of new Vigilante groups. In Clacton...
...tape that was keeping usable houses vacant. But it would need more than a practical protest to relieve the country's acute housing pains. There was a physical shortage of nearly a million houses, which only new construction (estimated to take four years) could provide. But the Guv'nor and his Vigilantes were a warning: Britain's new Government, Tory or Labor, must give housing top priority. Every homeless Englishman demanded his castle...