Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have seen many members drunk in the House of Commons. I am sorry to say that no party is exempt. I have seen members of my own party hopelessly intoxicated. But perhaps there is more drunkenness in the Conservative Party because it is in the great majority in Parliament...
...With Parliament due to assemble on or about Oct. 24, Premier Poincaré announced last week a new formula under which he hopes to get the Franco-U. S. debt pact past the ever recalcitrant Chamber of Deputies...
Britain's "million miner coal strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.) seemed on the verge of collapse last week as the number of miners who have repudiated their leaders and returned to work swelled to 200,000. Significant developments: Parliament convened for a short special session to extend the Emergency Power Act which has been kept in force during the entire 23 weeks of the strike. Premier Baldwin declared before the Commons that his Government had come virtually to the end of its powers of mediation in the strike. He indicated that if the miners would return to work...
...sparrows and pigeons that live in a thousand Gothic niches about Britain's Houses of Parliament swarmed up to their nests and then out again in frightened flutter. Some of the pigeons took refuge off in Trafalgar Square, which was singularly empty that afternoon. All of London seemed to have converged upon the Westminister bridgeheads to watch what some old birds eyed knowingly- one of those loud-droning big creatures with stiff wings that used to fly over Big Ben so often ten years ago. They saw this creature circle Parliament twice, then drive the greedy gulls...
...much sought as a popular speaker on Liberal Party platforms both a his home and in the East End on London and also in many other parts of the country. His reputation as a speaker in the Cambridge Union has led many prominent men including members of Parliament to enlist his eloquent services on their Parliamentary campaign and his wide experience as a public speaker both in the Union at Cambridge and at public meetings at election times has given him that grasp of facts and fluency of expression which alone can command an audience's attention