Word: hansard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that his father once represented the riding. Nevertheless, the election threw an unaccustomed scare into the Liberals. The Tories felt nothing but joy. When Leader George Drew entered Parliament the night of the election, party colleagues gave him a loud cheer and, following time-honored custom, threw copies of Hansard (equivalent to the Congressional Record) across the House...
Whatever its origin, whatever its meaning, the word "spiv" had definitely become a part of the King's English. Last week the Right Honorable Ralph Assheton, M.P., escorted it formally into Hansard's (the British Congressional Record) and immortality. Britain, he said on the floor of Parliament, was sinking into a socialist swamp of "spiv-economy...
...clock stopped. For the next hour and 14 minutes the session continued, with the Commons shouting approval of one appropriation after another until the total passed an estimated $200,000,000. Prime Minister King sat drumming his desk impatiently. Finally it was over. M.P.s whooped, threw copies of Hansard in the air, like schoolboys beginning their summer vacation...
...successor to veteran Editor Percy Cole, another onetime newsman, Tom O'Donoghue will boss a staff of 18 crack (180 words per min. or better) shorthand reporters. They work in pairs-15 minutes at a stretch-in the curtained press gallery above the Speaker's chair. Sometimes Hansard gets things wrong, but it's official, even so, and its bound volumes can be quoted in a court of law. Hansard never identifies a man's party, only his district: he is supposedly representing his entire constituency. When Emanuel Shinwell slapped Commander Bower in 1938 for saying...
Like the Congressional Record, Hansard can be fascinating reading-or unbearably dull-depending on who says what. Its reporters either euphemize or ignore profanity (Hansard tactfully fails to hear Ernie Bevin when he says, as he often does, in debate, "By God"). They will take down cries of "Hear! Hear!" but do not record laughter, cheers or jeers unless the context of speeches requires it. Unlike the Record, it is uncluttered with Members' undelivered speeches. The editors will let an M.P. replace only such Parliamentary divots as split infinitives and wrong dates...