Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the caterwaul Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, pale-faced and tightlipped, sat imperturbably on the treasury bench. Finally, the speaker said that he was under the impression that the proponents of the censure motion wanted a reply...
When the House reassembled Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister again rose to reply Ito the Laborite attack. Prime Minister Baldwin sat, as calmly as ever, with his feet on the treasury table. Again rose the cries "We want Baldwin! We want the organ-grinder, not the monkey...
...Prime Minister on the following morning walked into the reading room in the press gallery, there to hold a conference with the Parliamentary reporters. As he strode into the room he was greeted with a good-natured yell: "We want Cunliffe-Lister!" Smiling, Mr. Baldwin returned the chaff: "I am glad to have a chance of meeting people who really make and unmake men and Governments. I present myself with some trepidation before you. I think it is extraordinarily kind of you to care to have me among you at this moment, when a vote of censure is overhanging...
...heard your chairman say that the press men's lot has improved in recent years. That is a new experience to me. A Prime Minister's work is much harder than it used to be. Telephones and motor cars have added most distractingly to the daily labors of a Prime Minister. I wish none of them had ever been invented...
...fact, Lord Derby had two ambitions. The first did not count; it was to be Prime Minister. When the chance came he turned his back on it. A life of political ambiguity had evidently settled his pristine urge. During the war he became Director General of Recruiting and author of the famed Derby Scheme, which gave the nation's manhood its last chance to join the colors before conscription overtook it. He next became Secretary of State for War, a post which he relinquished in 1918 to become one of the most popular Ambassadors to France that Britain...