Word: macaulay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trick, nonetheless low for being common, and it was the master's task last week to make it appear lofty. Since he had asked the King to dissolve Parliament last week a full year before its term is up. Mr. Baldwin wished to quote the late great Lord Macaulay as as approving such a move. "The words I am going to quote do not come together in context," confessed the Prime Minister putting together snatches of Macaulay and quoting him as having written: "A wise Minister will always dissolve a year before the end of the legal term...
From this Authority. Mr. Baldwin proceeded to that other British shibboleth, Precedent. "In the half century before [Macaulay] wrote, nearly every Parliament was brought to an end a year before the legal limit." he cried. "So [too] when you come to the brave days of Disraeli and Gladstone...
...Packard's 15,000,000 shares touched a last week's high of 7½. Last year's low was 2¾. President Macaulay, holding 339,245 shares, increased his net worth...
PAPRIKA - Erich von Stroheim - Macaulay...
Thus Author Erich von Stroheim describes the preliminary grappling that leads to Paprika's fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...