Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion was a remark which Laski, professor of political science and author of 19 books and countless pamphlets, chiefly on the necessity of leftism, was alleged to have made at a Labor Party rally in Newark, Nottinghamshire. To a question from the crowd, Laski was reported (by the Nottingham Guardian, and later by Lord Beaverbrook's cockalorum conservative London Daily Express) to have replied: "If we cannot get the reforms we desire, we shall not hesitate to use violence, even if it means revolution...
...production is a cross between a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The chorus of tinkers resembles the famous Disney creation, while Sir Guy, who usurps Robin Hood's rightful inheritance, and the eagle-eyed Sheriff of Nottingham are taken straight from Gilbert and Sullivan. The combination is effective and entertaining...
Bruce Barton, advertising tycoon, onetime G.O.P. Congressman, ranged himself alongside the Sheriff of Nottingham. In a speech before some 370 be-orchided New Jersey socialites, he found a new name for Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: the New Deal's "morals have never risen above the level of Robin Hood, who defended his thefts from the rich on the ground that he gave to the poor...
...perfectly clear," said Sir Walter in a strong-man speech at Nottingham, "that the war is being used as a pretext for withholding from us this overdue rectification of a wrong. . . . Now we have decided that whatever the risks . . . we are going to re-establish organic connection with the Civil Service Trade Unions...
Collector. In Nottingham, England, police hunted a stranger who got into Mabel Foulkes's house, pushed her into a chair, pulled one of her teeth, fled the scene brandishing it aloft, crying, "What a beauty...