Word: runcimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sturdy old Sir Walter Runciman, 80, yielded a mite further, last week, to the biblical sin of pride...
...boyish posteriors used to be chastened by the laying on of a knotted rope end. That occurred when, as a stripling of 12, he ran away from home and signed on as cabin boy to a certain savage skipper. Today he controls the great Newcastle shipping firm of Runciman & Co., Ltd., and is proud to sit in the House of Commons. Prouder still is he of the fact that his son, also Walter, also sits in the House...
...gentleman was Sir Walter Runciman, father of onetime Cabinet Minister Walter Runciman...
That the shot took effect was seen when British Delegate Sir Walter Runciman, genial shipping magnate, remarked candidly: "It looks like friend Muspratt got it right on the bean...