Word: joynson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Both sides having pondered well this "memorandum," certain further assurances were conveyed in deadly secret. Soon Mr. Pugh led the Trade Union Council to No. 10 Downing St., the Premier's official residence. Within were the Premier and six* of his Ministers, fire-eaters "Winnie" Churchill and "Jix" Joynson-Hicks being conspicuously absent...
Shortly after midnight on the following morning Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, was roused from his bed and summoned to the house in which the Duchess lay, according to immemorial royal custom.† At 2:40 a. m. a daughter was born. Her first act, according to witnesses, was to yawn at Sir William Joynson-Hicks...
...Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, said: "I believe without exaggeration that the anxiety of the Cabinet over the disasters of the day is greater than during...
From the ultra-exclusive Carlton Club, London, there emerged one evening last week that arch Tory, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks. Suddenly a strident horn squawked, a raucus brakeband squeaked, a diminutive two-seater taxi clattered up to the curb. "Jixie! Jixie, sir?" cried the driver. Scandalized, the Carlton's imperious doorman motioned this hawker of transportation to move on, summoned the Home Secretary's motor. Frigid with annoyance, Sir William Joynson-Hicks rolled away. At least he appeared frigid. He is popularly supposed to resent the nickname "Jix" applied to him by vulgar plebs. He is alleged...
...Lenine. Famed anti-Communist fire-eater, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks (popularly known as "Jix") declared amid laughter, in answer to a question, that the widow of famed Bolshevist idol Lenine has applied for permission to end her days in England. Said the doughty "Jix," stiffly: "Such an application would be treated on its merits, if presented...