Word: runcimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foundation of the Government's policy." At this point political dopesters freely opined that Pixie Snowden's rashness would cost the Laborites whatever chance they have to win the approaching election. Though Conservatives and Liberals are as cats and dogs, a Liberal spokesman, Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, backed up the Government and declared before a cheering House, "The world must realize that once Great Britain has put her name to an undertaking she will carry it through in spite of the vicissitudes of political fortune." Anxious hours in conference with prominent Laborites had convinced Leader MacDonald that...
Last week rich, tangy Sir Walter Runciman was like to burst with pride when his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Walter Runciman, was returned to the House of Commons from a bye-election in the Constituency of St. Ives...
...three Runcimans are liberal M.P.'s. Son Runciman usually takes his seat next to that of Liberal Leader David Lloyd George. Wife Runciman delivered herself during her campaign of the following oracle: "I will always support David Lloyd George so long as he remains a Liberal." Her reference was, of course, to the possibility that Mr. Lloyd George might lead his Liberals into the Labor fold...
Last week Mrs. Runciman, M.P., was congratulated by her eight fellow female M.P.'s including famed Lady Astor, upon the fact that she is the only one of them with a husband in the House. Husband Runciman, as everyone knows, was recently President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom (1926-27), and is gradually taking over the superintendence of his father's shipping interests. Father & father-in-law Sir Walter Runciman, no longer a seaman but an ardent yachtsman, has recently completed an autobiograpical work of much gusto and sap, entitled appropriately Before the Mast...
...Walter's grandson, Walter Leslie Runciman, 27, is no seaman but has married a daughter (Rosamond) of famed Cambridge rowing coach R. C. Lehmann. Everyone knows that swart Rosamond Lehmann has written a best selling novel-Dusty Answer...