Word: ramsbotham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's First Commissioner of Works approximates Sam Goldwyn's idea of the U. S. citizen's idea of a Member of Parliament. His name is Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ramsbottom). He studied at Oxford, fought gallantly in the War. His frosty monocle magnifies a warm twinkle. He wears striped shirts, and talks as if he had some hot Yorkshire pudding in his mouth. His strength lies in his solid conservatism, his besetting weakness is for classical quotations...
Recently members of Parliament's Press Gallery, unable to believe their ears at foreign policy debates, suggested that perhaps there was something wrong with House of Commons acoustics. In Commissioner Ramsbotham's favorite language, Latin, they invited him to break Parliamentary rules,* come up and listen. His department could authorize repairs, if needed. Commissioner Ramsbotham accepted, listened for an hour. Said he (in letter-perfect Latin...
...RIKER RAMSBOTHAM...
With the official adoption of an anti-Don Quixote policy by the Prime Minister last week, it becomes the duty of Major Ramsbotham and other Conservative leaders to popularize it with the British masses. The engaging twinkle behind the monocle was working overtime last week as Orator Ramsbotham made headlines and scored chuckles all over the United Kingdom with a speech in which he referred to Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria thus...
...upswing in British public life today is tall, trim-mustached Major Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Rams-bottom), Minister of Pensions, who wears behind his icy monocle an engaging twinkle. He became active last year as an oratorical scout, reconnoitring British public opinion in advance of the isolationist policies formally adopted by His Majesty's Government last week . In his preliminary skirmishes last year handsome Major Ramsbotham, the epitome of a British officer with a gallant War record, characteristically declared...