Word: halifax
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...Most helpful," drawled Lord Halifax, "most useful...
...received callers, apologizing for his English, while an attaché hammered a typewriter in one corner of the room and Embassy personnel passed constantly in and out. He gave Vice President Henry Wallace a chance to test his Spanish, and got along so well with British Ambassador Lord Halifax that they exchanged autographed photographs. One night he received 350 guests, and during the reception went upstairs with Ambassador Castillo Nájera to consider the problem of dilapidated Embassy furniture...
...because of "financial stringency owing to the war." But London's scientific circles, knowing that Huxley had already accepted a 50% cut in his $6,800-a-year salary, had even offered to work for nothing if necessary, sniffed a more rooted reason. The Council headed by Lord Halifax's brother-in-law, the Earl of Onslow, has long disapproved of Huxley's liberal politics (frequently propounded in newspaper articles), his outside activities (weekly appearances on the BBC's popular Brain Trust program) and his blasphemous innovations in the Zoo (modernistic penguin pool, Children...
...Lord Halifax was given the degree of Doctor of Laws last June, climaxing weeks of speculation and refusals by the University to admit whether or not the British ambassador was to receive any such award...
Wild as the winds on Scotland's Ben Cruachan, red-haired Mrs. McEuen charged that seamen were being driven from her club's pleasant premises to the dismal bootleg joints on the Halifax waterfront...