Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During a dinner given on July 27, in celebration of the Anglo-Turkish treaty at Berlin, Benjamin Disraeli characterized William Gladstone, Liberal opponent of the Prime Minister's Eastern policy, as "a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself."-ED. Details...
...Roosevelt said to a group of cameramen: "I should think you'd get tired of taking my photograph." Said a rude photographer: "We do." ¶ Later in the week, in her column My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: "I ... drove over ... to talk for a few minutes with the Prime Minister of Norway, the Norwegian Minister and his wife. They were lunching with the President. . . ." Mrs. Roosevelt would have had a long wet drive had she indeed gone to see the Prime Minister of Norway, Johan Nygaardsvold, for he was last week attending to his business in Oslo. The gentleman...
...Yellows!" The British General Election held in the Jubilee Year of the late George V gave such a huge majority to what is now the Cabinet of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (bedded by gout while the King was reading his speech) that His Majesty's Loyal Opposition knew they could make no effective attack last week, proceeded to vituperate...
With this scheme sufficiently advanced for the London Committee to be all smiles and cordiality for the first time in months, only Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky darkling, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told Britain's newly-met House of Commons: 1) That he believes the "idea" that Italy intends to hold the Balearic Islands after the Spanish war is over to be "unfounded"; 2) That he accepts "as being given in good faith" Italian assurances that Italy has "no territorial or strategic or even economic designs on Spain." Pointing to Premier Mussolini's consent to adopt the British scheme...
...dream takes him to old Bagdad, where he is received by the Sultan and Sultana (former Strip-Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee). Eddie earns the gratitude of the harassed Sultan by setting up a New Deal, with himself as Prime Minister. Some of his projects: improved breadlines (one for rye, one for whole-wheat), a tax on wives, bridges for riverless Bagdad* (the rivers to be dug later), dancing lessons for the masses, filling stations for camels...