Word: ickornshaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking as usual without effort or gestures, Mr. Chamberlain took his time, began with a tribute to his famed predecessor Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, a choleric Free Trader who attacks the present Chancellor's tariff policies on any & every occasion. With the Olympian condescension of a Chamberlain, the new Chancellor declared last week: "Lord Snowden's last budget is a model example of secure but sound and sane finance. We are now £9,000,000 better off than Lord Snowden anticipated...
...Lords- ¶ Received into their House former Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden who, scarcely able to support the weight of his ermine-barred, scarlet robes, hobbled painfully on his two canes up to Lord Chancellor Sankey and piped "I, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, swear by Almighty God that I will bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help...
...Ickornshaw, derived from Norse words meaning "Oak in the Woods," was the new viscount's village birthplace. Because of his infirmities, stooped Viscount Snowden did not kneel to the Lord Chancellor as custom prescribes. Ostentatiously Lord Snowden's former friends in the present Labor Party boycotted his swearing in. But present were Scot MacDonald, most of the Cabinet and the new peer's longtime political enemy Winston Church ill, with whom he used to alternate as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Identify the following, indicating briefly the part each played in the news of the past month: 1. George W. Olvany. 2. Hiram Johnson. 3. Amos W. W. Woodcock. 4. Duke of Manchester. 5. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. 6. Viscount of Ickornshaw. 7. Jana Lucia Deletz. 8. Mukden. 9. Albert C. Ritchie. 10. Theodore Dreiser...