Word: palmerstonism
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Successor to Canning, Palmerston, Salisbury, Britain's new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: Herbert Morrison...
...Home. In Unionville, Ont., John W. Perkins, who issues government permits for radios, was fined $5 for failing to license the radios in his house and hardware store. Near Palmerston, Ont., Dr. I. W. James, chief of the Gunshot Wounds section of the Pension Commission, went hunting, shot himself in the foot...
...Among gouty notables: Kubla Khan, Alexander the Great; U.S. President James Buchanan, British Prime Ministers Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts, Neville Chamberlain; John Milton, Martin Luther, Tennyson, Benjamin Franklin, John Barrymore...
...amused, amusing manner, nothing of his skepticism and silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...
...course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...