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Word: hurtwood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Allen of Hurtwood, a National Laborite; the Marquess of Crewe, Liberal; and Lord Plymouth, Conservative, were among peers who joined Lord Samuel in publicly resisting the temptation to take a negative view of Nazi demands and ambitions. However, Lord Allen plaintively admitted that Britain "cannot hand out colonies like cards in a game of 'beg of my neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hitler Touches Wood | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...careful to dress somewhat badly. Rumpled Mr. Harvey slipped into the Pullman, spoke for a few minutes to Haile Selassie, then presented His Majesty to many an eminent, top-hatted friend of the League of Nations and of Ethiopia, including Economist Sir Walter Thomas Layton and Lord Allen of Hurtwood. They pressed upon His Majesty an engraved, though quite unofficial, scroll declaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Selassie & Fiuggi | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

When their Lordships rose, the sedition-squelcher had passed second reading after lurid revelations by Baron Allen of Hurtwood, a close friend of Scot MacDonald. "A plot has been discovered to seize the British Broadcasting House and make a coup d'état like that attempted in Vienna last July," began Lord Allen. He ended by admitting that the plotters "went no further than to think of preparation of plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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