Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House voted down Sir Richard's protest, 178-to-12. But that did not erase facts which cause quiet but deep concern. The present Parliament was elected seven and a half years ago, and new M.P.s elected to House vacancies in by-elections are virtually selected by the Government, handed to the nation by Britain's three top, trucing parties. Britons are even more disturbed by the fact that an estimated 7,000,000 voters cannot vote in these by-elections...
...which had taken Winston Churchill to Moscow, Casablanca and Turkey eased down on Washington's airport last week, bringing Britain's handsome, faultlessly groomed Robert Anthony Eden on his second visit to the U.S. The first time, in 1938, he was temporarily out of public life in protest against Chamberlain appeasement-he came to make little speeches, lay wreaths and inspect CCC camps. This time, as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Churchill's heir-presumptive, he came on urgent and secret business...
...maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish . . . Nonsense . . . Shame" greeted his protest; and Laborite Will Thorne, the House's oldest member (86), blew two blasts on a football referee's whistle to express his disapproval even more loudly. When order was restored, Brown accepted: ". . . I will give to you my very level best and thereto I pledge my word...
Proposer Lambert and Laborite John Tinker, who had seconded the nomination, then advanced purposefully on Brown, to drag him from his seat. As Brown made the requisite gesture of protest, the two men seized his arms, separated him from his chair. (Origin of this tradition: during the 15th Century, Speakers were apt to be hanged by the King, so a new Speaker was understandably reluctant...
Four Buckets Behind. Outraged advertisers occasionally phone in to protest such maltreatment of their product. They get nowhere. Gentile takes the calls in the studio and lets his listeners hear the argument. One sponsor who knows better is a clothier named Conn, who has used the program for eight years. Conn likes to recall that he was once a coal miner and came up the hard way. Gentile & Binge seldom let him forget it. They usually corrupt his program with: "Come on, Conn, you're four buckets behind." Sponsors may get mad, but most of them find that this...