Word: thoroton
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Lieut.-General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, British Governor of the buggy-and-bicycle vacationland of Bermuda, few months ago applied to the Assembly for an automobile. (There are only half-a-hundred motor-driven vehicles on the Islands, none for private use.) The application was received with "ribaldry." and the Governor retired to his tent with a severe case of the haughties. Last week when the Speaker informed the Assembly of the Governor's still purple condition, the ribald Assemblymen sent their soothing respects...
Rumors titillated last week in the island of Bermuda, where the Assembly decades ago voted to outlaw automobiles, that loggerheading Lieut.-General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., D.S.O. will go back to England and stay there unless as Governor of Bermuda he is permitted to have a motor car. Before the Assembly itself it was hotly argued for Sir Reginald that the 100 troops under his command ride in motor trucks, that even the island's garbage is collected by motor lorry, so it is unseemly, illogical, ridiculous and in bad taste that their Governor, who is, moreover...
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