Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...testily, almost petulantly last week: "In my opinion the prolongation of the strike is due entirely to the obstinacy of the mine owners." Onetime (Jan.-Nov. 1924) Laborite Premier Ramsay Macdonald vigorously attacked the Government: "You have not played a straight game! You have sided with the mine owners!" Lloyd George, speaking for his corporal's guard of impotent Liberals cried: "How can we hope for peace while the Government skids on the road? Had the Government held to a single policy- almost any policy-the miners would be back at work today. The Chancellor of the Exchequer should...
...second volume of H. G. Wells's newly released novel The World of William Clissold: George V, R. I. is "the worthy, conscientious, entirely unmeaning and uninteresting son of plump old Edward VII." The Earl of Balfour, "that damned madonna lily; . . . grows where he is planted." Lloyd George is as "clever as six foxes Margot Asquith: " Wherever- there is a foreground there also will be the Countess of Oxford and Asquith...
Then let him turn to Kunitz' poem, "John Harvard", which won the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize for 1926 and read in vigorous and musical verse of "the silent one" who sits enthroned with his back to University...
...yodel stale lines with broad vocal nuances. About her plump, Hungarian person the show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers, or sit like a house fly in the saccharine stickiness of a raspberry tart. The chorus of toe-dancers flit about in movements more airy than usual. Theatre-goers can hardly afford to miss Comedian Lupino. The rest is mediocre...
...Monitor reported the appointment of a committee for the linguistic instruction of speakers in: the British Broadcasting Co. Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Dramatist G. B. Shaw, Actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Professor Daniel Jones of London University, one L. P. Smith of the Society for Pure English, and Lecturer Lloyd James were the gentlemen selected to see that Britons should not, through hardening to voices in the air, fall into such malaproprieties as saying "acow-sticks" for "acoustics" "despick'-able" for "des'picable," "gu-raghe" for "ga'rage" "lie'aizon," "for leeay'zon" revelant...