Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final proof of the falseness (or truth) of such North Carolina musings may not be far off. In the Library of Congress are Abraham Lincoln's private papers. By the will of his son, Robert Todd Lincoln, their seal may be broken...
...Churchill ("Clemmie") sprinted down the platform. Behind her trotted slim Clement Richard Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, and massive Sir John Anderson, the Lord President of Council. Churchill grinned and watched their approach. Then he gathered his wife in a vast bear hug and bussed her on both cheeks...
Although warning against undue optimism, Lord Privy Seal Clement Richard Attlee could not keep cheerfulness out of his voice last week when he reported to the House of Commons on the war at sea. "July was a good month," he said. Axis merchantmen to the tonnage of 459,000 (92 ships) were sunk, damaged or put out of action. Of these 291,000 tons were hit in the North Sea or the Atlantic; 168,000 tons in the Mediterranean...
...Berlin, Funnyman Wodehouse last week began to function as trained seal for the Nazis. In a deep chuckling tone, he described his internment as "an agreeable experience," recounted for short-wave listeners the details of his capture by the Germans. Typical whimsy: "The scene was not one of vulgar brawling. All that happened as far as I was concerned was I was strolling along with my wife one morning when she lowered her voice and said: 'Don't look now but here comes the German Army.' And there they were, a fine body of men, rather prettily...
Clement Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, is to Mrs. Strauss a "little man with inconspicuous features and a toothbrush moustache," who, to make matters worse, has "a suburban background . . . smokes a pipe, loves to potter in his garden and do odd jobs of carpentry." "At a recent Labor Conference he was taken ill on the first day, and for the rest of the week was absent-and no one missed him." Mrs. Strauss is somewhat shocked that while "Attlee appears to have a deep humility, it is not quite deep enough" to make him "resign from the leadership...