Word: tooksbroo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Epping (now, happily, First Lord of the Admiralty) may well rejoice that he represented a constituency which TIME did not "mispronounce" (TIME, Sept. 4). The "Tight Little Islanders" from Torquay to Tynemouth pronounce Tewkesbury "Tschewksbry" - but never "Tooksbroo" as TIME'S esteemed Editors point...
...Epping he had no more power than an honorable member for Deptford, Huddersfield, Moss Side, Smethwick, Penryn, and Falmouth, Tavistock, Penrith and Cockermouth, Spennymoor, The Wrenkin, Tewkesbury (pronounced "tooksbroo") or the 615 constituencies of England, Scotland and Wales. But as Winston Churchill the Elder Statesman, scarred veteran of innumerable parliamentary battles, historian of the World War, novelist, biographer of his ancestors, and the most pungent and expressive critic of Prime Minister Chamberlain, he had an influence, a possible future and a voice in affairs that made his position unique. That he was there at all said much about him, more...
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