Word: hon
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...London last week, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, was making a speech to his bishops and clergy. In the rich voice with which he dominated the radiocast of the coronation, the archbishop was ranging through the state of Christianity around the world when ears suddenly pricked to what sounded like fighting words-not against enemies of religion but against the Roman Catholic Church...
Born. To Angela Estree Lyssod Dowding Lascelles, 34, onetime London actress, and the Hon. Gerald David Lascelles, 28, jazz-loving, auto-racing first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; their first child, a son, who is 14th in line of succession to the British throne; in London...
...saying: "There is no hurry about this bill; in fact, it would be a good thing if it were never passed at all." Churchill rose to the fray. Standing with his feet apart, dimpled hands on the dispatch box, his face flushed a winy pink, he said: "The Right Hon. Gentleman is a master of the art of trying to have it all ways at once." His next words were almost lost in the din of angry voices. But Churchill went right on taunting and scoffing the Opposition for having shown so much "quiescence" over denationalization: "They have lashed...
...exhibition stresses the work of Prud'hon, Ingres, Gericault, Chasseriau, Millet, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec. It also includes a portrait of Marie Stuart by Jean de Court and portraits by Francois Clouet which have been lent to the Museum...
...Majesty's First Lord of the Admiralty, the Right Hon. J.P.L. Thomas, shattered the decorous precincts of the House of Commons last week with a depth charge that rattled the windows of history. Confessed Thomas ruefully: "Russia has today the second largest navy in commission in the world." He added: "The first is, of course, the navy of our American ally...