Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professional rousers are not always helpful. A gloomy Oxford "scout" (college servant) used to wake his young gentlemen with the invariable remark: "Seven-thirty, sir, and another 'orrible morning...
...From womb to tomb" was the British phrase for it. When Sir William Beveridge (in 1942) put out his famous plan,* its socialistic scheme for insurance and medical care was sponsored by a Conservative-led coalition government. Last week, under the more appropriate aegis of the Labor government, a National Health Service Act initiated by the Beveridge Report went into effect. For every man, woman & child in the United Kingdom, all medical care would be free, in a Socialist sense (paid out of taxes): doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, hospital beds, eyeglasses, artificial legs...
Died. Maud Alice ("Emerald"), Lady Cunard, seventyish, famed Chicago-born hostess of Edwardian England's literary & artistic set, and later a boon companion of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson; of pleurisy and cancer; in London. A sometime intimate friend of Novelist George Moore and Symphony Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, Emerald married Steamship Heir Sir Bache Edward Cunard in 1895, came to view with imperturbability the diatribes of her ultra-radical daughter Nancy...