Word: jix
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thomas, domestic, fun loving, is the most colorful character in the new Cabinet. Famed is his Welsh-plus-Cockney accent, his fondness for smoking room stories. Londoners chuckled last week recalling the occasion when as Colonial Secretary in 1924 he was anxiously interviewed by ultra Conservative, fussbudget Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks...
...then Jix," said "Jim" Thomas, "I won't 'urt your bloody Hempire...
...onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, and second son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, last week landed in New York. Having just received his Ph. D. from the University of Berlin, he is in the U. S. for a three-week visit to study, like any European, "conditions." Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Great Britain's impeccable Home Secretary, last week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British authors in London, he said: "If we all work together we may be able...
...Indiscreet Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, His Majesty's Home Secretary (TIME, Jan. 14). now vacationing on the French Riviera, said last week that he thought Their Majesties might soon remove from bleak London to sunny Menton, a few miles from Monte Carlo...
...Pompous, perennially frock-coated Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks incurred the ire of Her Majesty the Queen-Empress, last week, and received a rebuke from the London Times...