Word: pikestaffs
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Oliver Cromwell, pretty much of an all-out player himself in his day, looked like a man about ready for permanent retirement. The Old Roundhead had been for 287 years on the same old pikestaff (where it had been placed for exhibition when Cromweli's body was exhumed, hanged and beheaded after Charles II's restoration). In a remarkable state of preservation, complete to a wart over the right eye, it was brought out of the bedroom chest of Canon Horace Ricardo Wilkinson in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, for a brief public appearance...
...fortnight ago, automen watched sharply to see how much power Old Henry would let him have. (In all the years Edsel Ford was president, Old Henry kept tight control in his own hands.) Now they knew. In allowing his old favorite's downfall, Old Henry had made it pikestaff plain that Young Henry is now absolute boss. It looked as if Old Henry Ford, either by choice or necessity, had finally retired...
...Washington. Then France demanded changes in Dumbarton Oaks and, to her surprise, it was Stalin rather than Roosevelt or Churchill who firmly refused to make revisions before San Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet Ambassador Alexander E. Bogomolov elucidated Russian realism v. French realism for Diplomat Maurice Dejean of the Quai d'Orsay: "France should not try to sing above her range...
...week's end, the Stettinius statement had roused a mixed reaction in Europe. In a ringing speech, Winston Churchill made the British position pikestaff plain (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Italy, Count Sforza was cautiously grateful for "American generosity"-but he did not get into a new government. Moscow was aloof and silent. U.S.-Soviet relations, however, had never been better...
...Reed, he retorted: "The Court sustains this [FPC] order as reasonable, but what makes it so, or what could possibly make it otherwise, I can not learn." The newest split in the Court had a special interest to the U.S. in general. It was now plain as a pikestaff that the Court can never be effectively packed. The seven "Roosevelt Judges" have repeatedly split seven ways from Sunday. More often than not Justices Frankfurter, Reed and Jackson line up with the pre-Roosevelt Roberts in a "conservative" minority; while pre-Roosevelt Stone sides with Hugo Black, Douglas, Murphy and Rutledge...