Word: strabolgi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pompous Labor Lord Strabolgi (the tenth of his line) backslapped portly Labor Lord Quibell (first of his line), an ex-Midlands bricklayer. Lord and Lady Woolton (he top-hatted, she bejeweled) nodded to Sir John and Lady Anderson (he in formal cutaway, she in wedge sandals). Opposition Leader Winston Churchill, in striped pants and spotted bow tie, came with Anthony Eden, magnificent in formal clothes and studied carelessness...
...Lord Strabolgi, a voluble, retired lieutenant commander of the Royal Navy, said in the House of Lords that the next 100 days "will be as important in the history of the world as the 100 days before Waterloo. . . . Then Napoleon met his fate, and Hitler will meet his if we act bravely and swiftly...
...Parliament. To a reporter, a BBC official said with historic detachment: "We shall certainly play one of the Russian anthems. The question is: what is the Russian anthem?" BBC compromised by playing a recording of a Red Air Force song, Plane, My Plane! Labor's Chief Whip Lord Strabolgi slyly reminded the House of Lords that The Internationale was a stand-by of Labor Party meetings, that he had seen Minister of Home Security Herbert Morrison singing "with great gusto and evident enjoyment...
...Baron Strabolgi (who as Lieut. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy used to speak for Labor in the House of Commons) made the neat point that, much as Prime Minister-reject Chamberlain may hate Hitler now, his past record is so identified with appeasement that "so long as he is in the inner War Cabinet, the German propagandists will find credence for their fairy tales about Britain suing for an armistice...