Word: publicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Churchill glanced around the bar: "You know, as I look at this room and think back over my long association with this House, I think that this is a pretty good pub." Britain's great man, thinking of the English publican's insistent cry at closing time when reluctant customers must be urged out into the night, gazed dreamily at the ceiling and added: "And as I look at the faces in the House, I wonder why I should leave this pub until someone says, 'Time, please'-in somewhat stronger accents than those of my friends...
...constituency the Unionists lost was Roman Catholic East Tyrone, where the Nationalist Party, which favors union with Dublin, has been in full sway since 1921. Some of the Nationalists in East Tyrone wanted to return Joseph Stewart, Dungannon publican, to the seat he has held for 20 years. Others thought better of Desmond Mallon, who publicly promised not to take the seat even...
...Whittaker Chambers: a new type of publican-a TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR PUBLICAN . . . May I express my feeling of nausea at your picturing Mr. Chambers cloaked in Biblical raiment...
...Your analogy concerning Whittaker Chambers and the publican is not only inconsistent but ludicrous. This "humble" publican has performed no ablution, but rather has come out of the temple to sell his sins. Whittaker Chambers is an emotional, not a rational man. This is shown from his grasp of "faiths," each diametrically opposed. He has substituted one faith for the other and in his processing has disregarded rationality...
Throughout his two trials for perjury. Hiss kept saying that he had not sinned. Chambers kept confessing sins. Yet both juries voted (the first 8 to 4, the second 12 to 0) that the Pharisee was a whited sepulcher, that the publican spoke the truth...