Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaning nonchalantly on the platform railing was plump, pale-eyed Stanley Baldwin, Britain's Prime Minister. While the Bishop prayed, Prime Minister Baldwin mumbled in response and read through his own speech, preoccupied, apparently oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion. Prayers over, he mounted the rostrum. Cocking his head on one side, shooting out his under jaw, he began...
...speech finished, Prime Minister Baldwin grinned ingratiatingly, winced again and descended from the platform. Listening to the speech with eyes closed, a sour expression on her face, was long-nosed Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith. Her moment came when the men were through speaking. The women of the audience crowded around her for a look, a possible smile, as they always do. She, as she always does, loved it, lingered long...
...does not seem absolutely essential, however, either that he conduct research or that he be a retired business man or that he have had experience in a great number of fields, although all these things are desirable. The adviser's ability to talk to students understandingly is his prime requisite...
Last week in London's staid Albert Hall, the mournful tune poured from the throats of 1,000 solid supporters of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...Conservatives sang words of their own, however. "Stanley Boy" the song is to them. As to how the words got changed, this story is told: One Waldron Smithers, Conservative M.P., was asked by Prime Minister Baldwin to speak at a dance given for new Conservative voters. When Mr. Smithers arrived, Conservative couples were revolving on the floor to the strains of "Sonny Boy" Suddenly inspired, Mr. Smithers stepped to the platform, asked the bandmaster to repeat the selection. Then-even as the French patriot, Rouget de Lisle, is supposed to have improvised the "Marseillaise"; upon a cafe table...