Word: lordly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Lieutenant Billow's testimony (he also said no British warship had, to his knowledge, been sunk by a Nazi bombing plane) was the more impressive when corroborated by no less a warrior than First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. For four weeks an Admiralty commission had chewed its cud over Royal Oak's sinking in Scapa Flow. Last week Churchill stood up, with even more than his usual show of nimble-wittedness, and admitted for himself and the Admiralty that...
Admiral Sir Roger Keyes (hero of the night-blockading of Zeebrugge in 1918) arose in all humility to second First Lord Churchill. Said...
...talkingest of them all was Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who, having given a full explanation of how Royal Oak came its cropper (see p. 20), held a pep session on BBC. It contained easily the week's liveliest name-calling...
...weeks have been allotted to us to get into fighting trim," boasted Mr. Churchill. "We are far better prepared to endure the worst malice of Hitler and his Huns than we were at the beginning of September!" If Germany does not choose now to attack, continued the First Lord, "we shall profit to the full by the time put at our disposal...
LONDON--First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston Churchill tonight blasted talk of peace and mediation in the European war with a blunt announcement that the Allies will fight until "that cornered maniac," Adolf Hitler, and his Nazi regime are crushed and destroyed...