Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Never put off until tomorrow what you can just as well put off until next week"- such was the Irish motto cheerfully followed by Scot James Ramsay MacDonald on his return last week to Britain...
...Convened without the usual formality of a Speech from the Throne because: 1) The King, who reads the Speech, was still convalescent at Sandringham, though well enough to shoot pheasants, eat pheasant morsels. 2) The Prime Minister, who writes the Speech from the Throne, was on high and rough seas...
...right, Your Worship," said he. "Mrs. Cratchitt and I, we've forgotten our little differences. I've arranged to pay all her debts. As a matter of fact, I've done pretty well. For 30 years I've had a cat's meat round in the City, and if I do say so I'm a man of independent means...
...their homes. ... In the United States the viewpoint seems to be: 'I'll go out and earn some money if my husband and I cannot afford to employ a cook without my adding to our income with my earnings.' In Great Britain the girl whose husband is only moderately well off would say: I shall go and have a few cooking lessons so that we need not employ a cook...
...Well," he roared, "Why don't you open, the Sejm? I am waiting. We are all waiting...