Word: parliament
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Whatever its origin, whatever its meaning, the word "spiv" had definitely become a part of the King's English. Last week the Right Honorable Ralph Assheton, M.P., escorted it formally into Hansard's (the British Congressional Record) and immortality. Britain, he said on the floor of Parliament, was sinking into a socialist swamp of "spiv-economy...
...Lamoureux, rapped three times on the door of the House of Commons. Admitted, he marched stiffly down the aisle, bowing to the Speaker as he approached the dais to announce that the Senate awaited the presence of the Commons. In the form set centuries ago by the Mother of Parliaments, the M.P.s trooped into the Senate Chamber. There, black-robed Mr. Justice Kerwin, filling the role of the vacationing Governor General, gave royal assent to 300 bills. He thereupon declared the third session of the 20th Parliament of Canada prorogued...
...take my money, father. He wants to live on his Navy pay." But in Manchester a working bus driver conceded: "I think the Royal Family gives us something other countries haven't got. I'm willing to pay for it." King George was expected to ask Parliament for ?35,000 a year for Philip. Elizabeth's own allowance (?15,000) would be upped. In time the couple would get their own town house, though they expected to start by living with the family. Unlike his great-great-grandfather, Victoria's Prince Albert, Philip would almost certainly...
...Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of Edinburgh University, President General of the Bermuda Industrial Union, President of the Progressive Bermuda League and Member of Parliament for St. George's, hereby declare that from henceforth I shall be known as Mazumbo...
Bland, well-dressed Mazumbo, leader of 2,000 politically conscious Negro workers, had taken his new name in protest against discrimination by a Bermuda newspaper; it prefixed "Mr." to the names of white members of Bermuda's Parliament (second oldest in the world), but called him simply Gordon. At his Hamilton home, Mazumbo lolled beside the Mimeograph machine in the living room, thinking up ways to needle Bermuda's whites who opposed his drive for better wages for Bermuda's Negroes...