Word: woolsack
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...interpret the laws of Britain. As the government's chief legal adviser, Gardiner is a top-level Cabinet officer. As head of the legal profession, he appoints judges and Queen's Counsel (senior barristers). As Speaker of the House of Lords, he perches on the symbolic Woolsack, also presides when the Law Lords (selected lawyer members) act as Britain's final court of appeal. Besides all that, he is guardian of all British infants, idiots and lunatics...
...British, whose Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack and whose woollens clothe some of the world's better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths. Last week Textile Expert R. W. Moncrieff told how clothes moths (Tineola bisselliella) got their depraved craving for wool, and how modern chemists are persuading them to let the stuff alone...
...After the 1941 bombing, their Lordships graciously took the Woolsack, adjourned to the King's Robing Room...
Upshot of the debate: the Lords agreed (in principle) to add some $500,000,000 a year to Britain's budget for such family allowances. The Government promised to do something about them as soon as a survey could be completed. Lord Chancellor Simon shifted uncomfortably on the woolsack. Plainly, plump, redoubtable William Temple meant to press politically, as well as spiritually, for the sweeping social and religious reforms he proposed last year at the Malvern Conference...
...kicking in the belly a gardener who tried to prevent her wrecking a flower bed. Her father, who told her macabre fairy stories and took her to prize fights, encouraged her "to be cheeky before solemn statesmen," allowed her to bounce up & down on the lord chancellor's woolsack. But "if we were naughty," says Lady Eleanor of herself and friends, "we were certainly never nasty...