Word: hore-belisha
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...whole show was a portrait of England. It was full of pictures of substantial English gentlemen like the late Earl Jellicoe, Field Marshal Lord Milne, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of London, the Right Honorable Leslie Hore-Belisha. It included Battersea Twilight, two pictures of Plymouth Sound, a great number of hunting scenes, the usual Spring in Cornwall, this time by the Academy's first and only full-fledged female member, Laura Knight, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. It had an extraordinary supply of studies of English bars, the Academician...
...rush dispatches to King Edward's week-end hideaway, Fort Belvedere, the instant they arrive instead of waiting for the evening messenger, whose duty it has always been to carry the day's dispatches to the King out of town. In deference to Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha's safety campaign (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), the motorcycle messengers were expressly ordered to obey all traffic laws. Edward's new motorcyclists will be listed as King's Home Service Messengers and are not to be confused with the King's Messengers attached...
...irritated spectator of TIME'S subtle antiSemitism, the latest manifestation of which in the issue of Feb. 18, re Leslie Hore-Belisha, is too rank to pass unnoticed...
...Leslie Hore-Belisha...
...microphone with Clown Eddie Cantor stepped publicity-courting Minister of Transport Major Leslie Hore-Belisha last week. "Despite the greatest government and police activity." he reported, "there were 187 deaths on British roads during Christmas week, compared to 160 in the previous week." Shrilled Clown Cantor, after Major Hore-Belisha had appealed for more careful driving, "If I were a girl I would never let a boy drive with one arm around...