Word: woolsack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private soldier in a shiny blue serge suit stood in the House of Lords last week and, grinning, plumped himself down on the woolsack, the oblong red cushion. traditional seat of the Lord Chancellor of Britain, and, next to the throne, the most honorable sit-spot in the empire...
...scandal of all England the Earl of Birkenhead when Lord Chancellor occasionally rested his foot on the august woolsack...
...George Viscount Cave, 72, felt his strength definitely impaired, last week, and executed in good time his resignation as Lord High Chancellor. The incumbent of this office is the highest civil subject in the land outside the royal family. He keeps the King's conscience, sits on the Woolsack as Speaker of the House of Lords, surmounts the pyramid of English judges, partakes of membership in the Cabinet, and performs such chores as standing guardian of all infants and lunatics...
...Douglas Hogg. Someone must always be Lord High Chancellor, but to have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call...
...continued the General amid laughter. "I am sorry to say it was ex-Speaker Lord Ullswater who led the vendetta in the Lords against the flea. I trust nothing was in the Speaker's chair which accounts for Lord Ullswater's ferocity. If it had been the woolsack, there might have been something...