Word: leakers
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...Poor Old Jim." In exonerating everyone except J. H. Thomas the verdict, although otherwise wholly a source of satisfaction, last week moved many British hearts to pity. It was recalled that Leaker Thomas had been an intimate friend of the late King George, and as the London Times said: "Let no one withhold a measure of sympathy from Thomas himself and the family concerned.... In the crisis of 1931 he [Thomas] was one of only two or three men who stood firm in the midst of political chaos and made possible the National Government which staved off disaster...
...will deny it to these loyal nurses. The literature of the South, from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" down, is full of reverence for their services. Famous nurses are plentiful in literary annals: Stevenson's "Cummic" has been immortalized; Lytton Strachey credits an odd individual, Mrs. Salome Leaker, with a vigorous part in his up-bringing; Barrle was intimately aware of the merits of nurse-maids--but even his affectionate "Nana" could hardly find place beside the loyal Southern mammies. Their bed-time stories compare as literature to the legendary fantasy of Ireland, and their lullabies are America's only folk...