Word: testiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exciting week of total failure to make London pedestrians stop jaywalking last week put Sir John Gilmour, Bart., grizzled and humorless Home Secretary, into the testiest of tempers. No other Cabinet officer has more direct control over British subjects. Scotland Yard is directly under the Home Secretary; administration of workmen's compensation laws fits into his portfolio; he advises the King when to exercise the right of pardon; he bars undesirable aliens and outranks all His Majesty's other Secretaries of State...
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