Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nationally laid down," which he evolved while Premier Baldwin was on his vacation (TIME, Sept. 20). Said the Chancellor 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...
Scotch Mist. Sir Patrick Hastings,* onetime (1924) Attorney General of Great Britain under the James Ramsay Macdonald ministry, writes of a captivating lady who prefers South Africa with a masterful Scotch lover to England with a member of the British Cabinet, even though the latter happens to be her lawful, wedded husband. Into this little triangle, Sir Patrick has thrown a few chips of bright dialog, but hardly enough to exalt his play above dangerous mediocrity. Rosalinde Fuller tosses about in the role of devastating Mary Denvers with a jerkiness that irritates in spite of her sincerity. Before visiting these...
...Their mothers were two of the beautiful, gifted, famed MacDonald sisters. The other two MacDonalds married Painters Sir Edward Poynter and Sir Edmund Burne-Jones. Rudyard Kipling derived his Christian name from the lake in Staffordshire where his father and mother met for the first time, at a picnic...
...fill this astounding hiatus on the bookshelves of science, Dr. Arthur MacDonald, U. S. anthropologist, wrote a letter to the Lancet, printed with the editorial, asking people everywhere to describe to him just how different people die. Whether a person dies in the sweaty writhings of agony or with the weary sigh of resignation, whether he rattles with final rales or lets his breath cease gently, Dr. MacDonald wants to know. It will be interesting to know truthfully how long before death famed men devise their "last" wise words; how long before utter extinction the moribund can sense the torturing...
There is no idle curiosity to Dr. MacDonald's searchings. "It is by no means impossible that the study he suggests might lead to a further wider knowledge which would ease the final hours of those who retain consciousness till the last...