Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austrians went to the polls this week, for the first time since 1945, to elect a Parliament. The election kept in power the anti-Communist coalition of Chancellor Leopold Figl's Christian-Democratic People's Party and the Socialists. The People's Party polled about 45% of the votes, captured 77 parliamentary seats (as against 85 in 1945). The Socialists got 67 seats (they had 76 before). The new League of Independent Voters, which is openly pro-Nazi, gained; it got an ominous 12% of the popular vote and 16 seats. The Communists, still Austria...
...unperturbed Earl of Lister shoots rabbits, his unruffled countess keeps ducks, and Tony, their nonchalant heir, after losing a seat in Parliament as a Conservative candidate, promptly tries again as a Laborite. This is too much for the family's fiercely Tory butler, who stands against Tony and wins the election. But it is one thing, of course, for a butler of the old school to stand in such circumstances, and quite another...
Fiddlesticks. In Brisbane, Australia, Minister for Transport J. E. Duggan announced the results of a survey: only 2% of Australian longshoremen swear, while 29.8% of Members of Parliament use cuss words...
...could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later, when George's younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without first asking the consent of the reigning monarch. For though Britons love ardor, they love order even more...
Cinemactress Jane Russell "is profoundly, indeed, apocalyptically, interested in the future state of the world-her approach being religious (though not ecclesiastical) rather than political." So, in his weekly newspaper column, announced awed Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg, who had been showing Visitor Russell around Parliament. "She has studied the Bible and its interpretation deeply. In her mother's garden in California, she told me, she and a group of other young people have built a chapel; down there, among the eucalyptus trees, strictly for prayer . . . Crowds of them come in every evening...