Word: yorkshiremen
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Although the sentimental novels of J. B. Priestley have contradicted the stock picture of Yorkshiremen as the most stubborn, blunt-speaking cranky-wits going, the Yorkshire novels of Storm Jameson have usually fitted the picture very well. In The Moon is Making, a pre-War family chronicle, she shows as stubborn and crotchety a collection of Yorkshiremen as ever stumped. But also among them is one who comes near to being a stubborn Yorkshire saint...
...instigation of the Prime Minister. They hear that Viscount Halifax, an eminent Churchman whom Mr. Baldwin sent to India as Viceroy some years ago, either knew in advance what the Bishop was going to say or actually put him up to it. Behind Politician Baldwin the proverbially canny Yorkshiremen discern his famed churchy wife, Lucy. They know that the Prime Minister was furious three weeks ago- when Edward VIII told the jobless of South Wales that more must be done for them than the Cabinet thinks the country can afford. They are willing to bet that Mrs. Baldwin will never...