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...fellow Scot, the Prime Minister, leaped up and moved John McGovern be suspended. "That's about all you can do nowadays!" jeered Scot McGovern at Scot Ramsay MacDonald. By a count of 315 to 16 the House promptly voted suspension of John McGovern, but John still stood his ground. "Wring his neck!" advised a Conservative...
...Speaker is not empowered to wring necks or have them wrung. It was 20 years last week since any Speaker had had anyone thrown out of the House (in 1911 the late Mr. Speaker Gully had some Irish nationalist M. P.'s ejected). Last week, as Mr. Speaker Fitzroy hesitated to make history, John McGovern taunted, "You don't have to tell me when to sit down! I sit down when I please...
Conservative M. P.'s, conscious that DIGNITY is the sine qua non of a true British Parliament, sat owlishly upon their benches, silent for the most part, but exclaiming murmurously from time to time, "Wring his neck. Hear, hear! Wring his neck. Hear, hear, hear!" Mr. Speaker, as a last resort, adjourned the sitting and departed, but still the panting, tugging, shirt-tearing, tie-mussing, hair-tousling tussle went...
...Zenzinov went with the village hunters on their annual wild-goose chase to the Arctic Ocean. In the summer when they are moulting, wild geese cannot fly. Siberian goose-hunters surround a moulting flock in their canoes, maneuver them into a low enclosure on the land, jump in and wring their necks. The carcasses are buried on the spot; when winter comes they are dug up, fed to the dogs...
...Birds Sing bears out the popular notion that blind people are happier than the deaf. Ostensibly the heart-wring-ing autobiography of a poor girl who lost her hearing, this book reads almost like a parody of the o-pity-me school...