Word: guv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winston would answer. "Dear cat." he would say to his lady. "Dear pig." she would reply. Lest the reader get the wrong impression, Norman is careful to explain that his beloved "Guv'nor" only said that sort of thing because he was very fond of animals...
...Churchill smoked them only halfway: it was Norman's duty to collect the halves and take them in a special box to Kearns, one of the Chartwell gardeners, who smoked them in his pipe. Churchill smoked only nine cigars a day, says Norman, on the defensive about his guv'nor's habits, but he admits they were strong enough to make Prince Georg of Denmark (a nonsmoker) violently sick after three puffs. As for whisky. Churchill was always at it. But Norman explains that the mixture (with soda) was weak, and 'e probably didn...
...Churchilliana will read this valet's valedictory for bits of backstage gossip like this, yet the book is more than just another footnote to the Churchill legend. It stands in its own right as a comedy of character. On foreign travel Norman hardly ever went to hear the guv'nor's speeches-he heard enough of his master's voice as it was. Yet Churchill always gravely consulted the young man after a speech: "I thought it went rather well, didn't you?" Invariably, Norman would answer, "Yes sir, very well indeed." Norman knew...
...Valet McGowan today works as a barman in Liverpool. On his showing, it could be gathered that any man who says a harsh word against his guv'nor will get a very short beer...
...Guiana last week. Four years ago, in the country's first general election, Communism-spouting Cheddi B. Jagan, a suave, U.S.-educated East Indian dentist (Northwestern University, '43), startled the complacent British by sweeping into office. The followers of his People's Progressive Party shouted, "We guv'ment!", and Jagan boasted that they would shoot their "oppressors." Six months later, 700 British troops and three warships deposed Chief Minister Jagan, suspended the colony's constitution. Next week, under a cautiously revised constitution, the colony's 200,000 voters will again go to the polls...