Word: quintin
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Conservative politicians gleefully roasted the novel. Former Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle sniffed that Snow's fictional Prime Minister was "pretty incredible." Frontbencher Iain Macleod said that "as a portrait of Tory politics half a dozen years ago, it is charmingly square." Quintin Hogg mused. "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" Literary critics were kinder, except for Cambridge Don F. R. Leavis, whose 1962 onslaught on Snow as "portentously ignorant" remains a bloody monument in the history of British literary warfare. Leavis acidly remarked: "Snow is in his heaven, the House of Lords." Snow urbanely shrugged off the critics...
...proceedings turned particularly lively with the appearance in Plymouth of querulous Quintin Hogg, formerly Lord Hailsham, one of the more erratic of Tory politicians. As Minister of Education and Science in the Conservative Cabinet, Hogg was routinely telling his audience about the superior virtues of the Tories when a heckler shouted: "What about Profumo...
...consistent heckling of virtually every political leader has brought responses which have stirred interest in the election. Sir Alec has been helpless before the hostile crowd. Even worse, Education Minister Quintin Hogg (who used to be Lord Hailsham) replied to a heckler in Plymouth: "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the Front Bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo." Other indiscretions came from R.A. Butler, the Conservative foreign secretary, who told a reporter, "Things might start slipping in the last days. They won't slip toward...
...very embarrassing for the Tories. In desperation, Quintin Hogg, Minister for Science, mustered a patriotic appeal: "It is better to be British than anything else," said Hogg, whose mother was the daughter of a Nashville, Tenn., judge. "No other conviction will serve in a time of discomfort...
Britain's Science Minister, the former Lord Hailsham, who renounced his viscountcy in order to run for Parliament, last week also lost his unofficial title as the Tories' champion vote getter. As plain Quintin Hogg, he won a seat in the Commons from London's solidly Conservative St. Marylebone (pronounced Marrerbun), a well-to-do residential district that encompasses Lord's-the Yankee Stadium of cricket-as well as medicine's Harley Street, Elizabeth Barrett's Wimpole Street and Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street. However, Hogg carried the constituency with only...