Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churchill-Lloyd George-Amery sapping and undermining of His Majesty's Government's position was a delicate lobbying and committee-room affair. As it proceeded behind the scenes, the Prime Minister squirmed and conferred in whispers with his colleagues on the Government front bench and House of Commons oratory on the bill scarcely mattered, although some of it was pungent...
...public calls him "A. P. H." Not in many years has a private member's bill such as this been permitted by His Majesty's Government to win its way through the Lords and Commons, but in England divorce is still such a risky subject that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has been overjoyed not to have to touch this bill, fortunately presented by a sort of Court Jester to His Majesty the British Public. Jester Herbert has not taken lightly criticisms of his bill by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Last week he rasped harshly in his hour...
Palestine, slipped back into the House of Commons last week to shotgun it as effectively as he had the Government bill on British armament profiteering, which had to be entirely scrapped and redrafted (TIME, June 28 et ante). In his hunting Mr. Churchill was aided last week by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and former Colonial Secretary Lieut. Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery. Deftly they put His Majesty's Government on the spot by crying that it was "un-British" to present a bill the effect of which would be for the House of Commons...
Humble for this ignorance, dentists pointed with pride to a new method of spotting the first speck of decay. Offered by Dr. James M. Prime of Omaha, this procedure is to paint the teeth with ammoniacal silver nitrate which gives "instant warning" by darkening rotting enamel...
...Cabinet learned she was the daughter of their worst enemy, the Archbishop, they threatened to resign unless the King did something about it. The King beat them to the draw by handing in his own resignation. On the day the King's abdication was to take place, the Prime Minister threw a bomb close enough to his carriage to make it look like an attempted assassination, so that abdication now would look like cowardice rather than a rebuke to his Cabinet. King John admitted he was licked. Soon after he became seriously ill, the loose bone was discovered...