Word: scot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas consented to fly to Paris with James Ramsay MacDonald whose right eye is now causing him trouble. The Prime Minister's left eye was operated upon for glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball) in February by Surgeon Duke-Elder. Last week Surgeon Duke-Elder did not fly with Scot MacDonald but followed him by rail and Channel packet...
...that moment. Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, was strolling into the lobby. Prime Minister MacDonald, himself a Socialist,† held out his hand to clasp that of Comrade Litvinov right warmly-never thinking of the impossible position in which this placed Mrs. Stimson. She, flushing, quit Scot MacDonald's side and beat a hasty retreat to Statesman Stimson whose State Department does not recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...Stimson, who had a mild case of laryngitis before he left Washington, presently found it so bad in Geneva that he had to sit at home in his ornate, rented Louis XVI villa ("The Stimson Musée") wearing heavy woolen socks, a bathrobe and silken muffler. Meanwhile, Scot MacDonald's doctors were pestering him with doctorish demands that he "take three full hours of complete relaxation and visual rest every day." In this atmosphere of inaction, invalidism and frustration correspondents set down...
Below on the oblong floor of the House, which is a great Gothic box, crisp English primroses bloomed in the buttonholes of scores of M. P.s, for Budget Day had happened to fall on "Primrose Day."** On the Government front bench sat snowy-crested Scot MacDonald between the Empire's two biggest bumblers, Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions. Exactly at 3:30 p. m. Chancellor Chamberlain rose, ruffled his notes, took a stiff stance beside the red leather despatch box and, before he began to make...
...Scot MacDonald, who had used these very words to exhort the Conference to action, had nothing to say to the Press, looked haggard...