Word: ishbel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he reached New York harbor with his daughter Ishbel, Prime Minister MacDonald had regained much of his philosophy. Newsmen asked if he were irked. Replied he: "Oh, gracious, no! It only brings into higher light the stress of the world." When he spied a ferryboat named President Roosevelt, he cried: "There, that's a good omen...
...Justice or Destruction!" Apple-cheeked Miss Ishbel MacDonald was at her father's side to keep him in the pink. Geneva cynics remarked that he had come to face "the most skeptical audience in the world," the Disarmament Conference (TIME, Feb. 8, 1932 et seq.). Admittedly one of the world's greatest orators, Prime Minister MacDonald was never greater than last week. In his speech, which lasted an hour and 20 minutes, he ran the gamut from threats to wheedling, from sarcasm to good cheer-all with Scotch power and dignity...
...Miss Ishbel MacDonald took her father for long, slow motor drives through the beauteous Swiss countryside. In London it was a matter of common remark that President Hoover had stolen the Prime Minister's thunder (see col. 3). It was even said that unless Scot MacDonald achieves a spectacular success of some sort in Switzerland his loss of prestige will make it impossible for him to continue as the head of Great Britain's National Government...
...Ishbel MacDonald...
...Seaham hurried Eldest Daughter Ishbel MacDonald, no candidate herself, to organize her father's campaign in advance of his arrival. On his 65th birthday the tall, tired, silver-haired Scot breakfasted at No. 10 Downing Street, then dashed to Seaham, began the bitterest campaign of his life. "Blackleg!"', a few hostile Laborites shouted at him (equivalent to U. S. union men crying "Scab...