Word: hannen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke of Edinburgh and those two adorable children. 'I guess those are the four most important people in the world,' said a voice behind me." All this was too much for some of Her Majesty's most loyal subjects. "Sickening gush," snorted crotchety old Columnist Hannen Swaffer. "Almost turned me into a republican." And last week Punch was moved to a page of parodies that were only too close to what the columnists often write. Sample Punchlines...
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...Wells called him "the most dangerous man in London." Madame Tussaud modeled him in wax. "Hannen Swaffer," said Press Lord Beaverbrook, "is the greatest personality that has walked down Fleet Street in our time." London's World's Press News called him "more abused praised, hated and feared than any journalist living...
Last week, still walking down Fleet Street at 73, abused and hated Hannen Swaffer stalked over to the Savoy for more concentrated praise than he had ever heard at one time. A Who's Who of British press and theater had gathered to toast his 50th year in Fleet Street. The Daily Express s Frank Owen, who years ago dubbed Swaffer "the Pope of Fleet Street," recalled the first sentence of Swaffer's verbal autobiography: "I was born in 1879, as was Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Camrose, Lady Astor, Joseph Stalin. What a vintage year!" Replied Hannen Swaffer...