Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harvest moon, the round face of Tory Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill rose in the House of Commons seven weeks ago to demand a parliamentary investigation. To wreck the Indian Reform Bill he had counted heavily on a report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on Japanese dumping and the fall of British cotton exports to India. The final report was mild as milk. Tory Churchill roundly insisted that it had been changed from its original draft after the Manchester cotton men had been feted, fed & flattered by Sir Samuel Hoare. a Secretary of State for India, and Lord Derby...
With his thumbs in his shiny belt last week Constable Arthur Jex of Worthing, Sussex stomached up to a suspicious looking character who gave the name of Leonard Rowland Hill...
Within the past week two serious burglaries had taken place in the neighborhood and things seemed to point to Leonard Rowland Hill. But shifty Leonard was in no mood for even a little talk. Suddenly he pulled a pistol from his pocket, shot and wounded Constable Arthur...
...Leonard Rowland Hill. In the hours of his hiding, with the baying of Mrs. Michael Sadlier's hounds in his ears, he had come to realize what a dreadful thing it is to shoot at a British policeman. Almost at her feet he pulled his pistol again and blew out his brains...
...while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise have been childish. Good shot: Leonard, when he has drained a tumbler of Mr. Latimers whiskey, explaining that he has done so "under protest...