Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toast to Themselves. At a parliamentary lunch at Chateau Laurier, Harry Truman rose for an impromptu speech. He thanked his hosts for his red-carpet welcome and tigerish ovation. Then he raised his glass of port in a toast: "The Parliament of Canada." The M.P.s broke into 0 Canada, and followed it with five verses of Alouette, while Harry Truman beat out the rhythm on the table...
...wanted. In his quiet way, the President had scored a big hit. Said a telegraph clerk: "That smile kind of gets you. He ought to come back often." clanged out The Missouri Waltz, the President, now in frock coat and silk hat, walked across the street to the Parliament Building with Mackenzie King. The House of Commons chamber was full. Bess Truman, in the Speaker's Gallery, smiled down from under a huge white...
Press & public are used to regarding Parliament's business as their own, but Parliament took its time in letting them in on it. For centuries it published no journal; coffee-house gossip spread the news of its debates. When a newsletter writer "presumed ... to take notice of the proceedings of the House" in 1694, he was summoned to the bar, forced to kneel and admit his offense. Not until 1803, in Luke Hansard's day, were reporters given seats of their own in the gallery, instead of having to rub elbows with other "strangers...
...Parliament itself took over Hansard. Until then Hansard printed only ministers and front-bench opposition verbatim; backbenchers were quoted in the third person, inadequately and often inaccurately...
...graduated" v. "graduated" [TIME, May 19]: I chuckled over TIME'S mild rebuke to Reader De Boer, but fear that some readers may have missed the delicate subtlety of "that extended little finger." People who say "was graduated" are like those who pronounce the "i" in parliament and the "t" in often. As a matter of fact the dictionaries allow either the transitive or the intransitive use of the verb, but the stately OXFORD says of "was graduated": "now rare except...