Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist-dominated EAM and other Left groups had voted, they would have captured 20% to 25% of the new Parliament. "This would not have altered the general outcome...
...politically he would be a nonentity. He would have to present himself, smiling, at all sorts of functions. He would entertain and be entertained. He would have to show interest in every form of public activity, from a cornerstone-laying to a charity bazaar. He would open sessions of Parliament, and sign bills. He would have ample time for sightseeing around the country, and would live in grand style in a 75-room Government House on an 85-acre estate at Ottawa, with 40-odd servants at his call...
...Children & No Eden. What Dickens called his "celestial or diabolical energy" emerged reinforced from his struggle with Maria. As reporter for the Morning Chronicle he stood, note-taking, in Parliament, until his feet swelled, raced over England in post chaises, sometimes wrote all night-and managed at the same time to pen his first, instantly successful literary works: Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers. He gave up journalism after he married Catherine Hogarth, an unambitious, lethargic Scot, who once remarked of the Garden of Eden: "Eh, mon, it would be nae temptation to me to gae rinning about...
Rumor shifted its range. Anthony Eden, went the new word, would carry on as day-to-day Tory boss in Parliament. Winston Churchill would stay on as titular leader and as a background elder counselor. The old battler was not yet ready to be chucked into...
Part-Time Job. In spite of the strings attached, Emir Abdullah might feel that a lifetime of loyalty to Britain had at last been rewarded. As a young delegate to the Ottoman Parliament, he had urged his father Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, to team with the British in an Arab revolt against Ottoman overlordship. In World War I (in return for a promise of Arab independence) Abdullah fought against the Turks, side by side with Colonel Lawrence...