Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book "The Decline of the West", Oswald Spengler harps, so to speak, upon a variation of an old theme--that history repeats itself. Every civilization, he says, travels the same path; every one has a spring, a summer, an autumn and a winter. There is nothing new under...
...turns into a deftly satirical one. Though affording Mrs. Fiske's admirers an opportunity to exclaim once again over her genius for discovering comedy in almost any kind of situation, it failed to accord with the sombre mood of a drama of doom. Theodore St. John, as Oswald of the softening brain, convincing at times, seemed entirely too self-possessed in the crisis...
Pronouncements. Turncoat Oswald Mosley, a Conservative M. P. four years ago, then an Independent, now a Laborite, said: "The result shows that the [Baldwin Conservative] government has entirely lost the confidence of the country and has now no mandate to govern...
...defeated Conservative candidate, J. M. Pike, scathingly recalled how Oswald Mosley and his wife Lady Cynthia (Curzon) had poured out Curzon gold in the campaign, adding: "The electorate seemed to have be hypnotized by Mosley's worldly possessions. The main lesson of the election is that the conquest the Labor party by wealthy aristocrats has begun...
Significance. Smethwick always goes Laborite. This year it merely went Laborite a little harder than usual. That meant nothing. But it is significant that two rising young politicians like Oliver and Oswald have decided that their chance for a career lies among Laborites. A generation ago they would have turned Liberal. Now that the Liberal party has dwindled to a nothing, the verse of Gilbert & Sullivan must be re-written Today the politicians who matt in England are either "LaborITE or "Con-ser-va-TIVE...