Word: hatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Musical Chairs. The result pleased almost nobody. The Times described the Cabinet shuffle as a game of puss-in-the-corner. The Spectator labeled it "The Cabinet Stirabout." Coming closer to the right figure, the Daily Herald compared it to the Mad Hatter's tea party: "The leading figures move solemnly from one chair to another and the public, like Alice, looks on bewildered." In effect, Mr. Chamberlain had invited his Cabinet to get up and march around the room while he stood one chair in the corner. When they sat down again, six had new chairs, there were...
Bertrand Russell has bright blue eyes, a big nose and very little chin, looks like Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. The British upper classes believe that he is mad. For 30 years Earl Russell has scandalized them with his unconventional ideas about politics, marriage, education. According to one tale, a local rector, visiting an unorthodox school for children that Bertrand Russell and the second of his three wives ran in Hampshire a few years ago, knocked on the door, which was opened by a nine-year-old girl, stark naked. Cried he: "Good God!" Retorted she, slamming...