Word: osbert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parliamentary corridors buzzed with rumors that Nye Bevan meant to make good lis threat to resign from the cabinet. Most Tories scoffed; from their opposition benches they needled the Minister of Labor-"the main advocate of waste and extravagance of all forms." Cracked Conservative M.P. Osbert Peake: "The Chancellor . . . has succeeded where his predecessors all failed; and even if the Chancellor has not yet succeeded in deflating our swollen economy, he has well and ruly disinflated the pouter pigeon of the Treasury dovecote...
Back in London, "fearfully tired and worn out" from their poetry-reading tour of the U.S., Sir Osbert and Edith Sitwell compared notes on audiences at home and abroad. Said Sir Osbert: "American audiences are more inquiring, more responsive, and not so tired as the English." Sister Edith agreed: "American response is quicker. Some of our meetings were like revivalist's meetings...
There'll Always Be a Drayneflete, by Osbert Lancaster. A witty satire on the British way of life as seen through the architectural history of an imaginary country town (TIME, June...
There'll Always Be a Drayneflete, by Osbert Lancaster. A witty satire on the British way of life as seen through the architectural history of an imaginary country town (TIME, June...
There'll Always Be a Drayneflete, by Osbert Lancaster. A witty satire on the British way of life as seen through the architectural history of an imaginary country town (TIME, June...