Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Munich. But the chickcharneys, who live on trees in the Bahamas' Andros Island, are fierce little men for all their 18 inches of height (see cut). They hate to be disturbed, and they're not likely to forget a man who chops down their favorite tree. Neville Chamberlain should have realized that, when he was a young man managing his father's sisal plantation in Andros...
...Express to become the Socialist editor of Imperialist Beaverbrook's Evening Standard (the Beaver did not forbid dissenting opinions, but only dull ones, from such bright-pink young men as Owen and his successor Michael Foot). On the Standard, Owen had tramped hard on Tory toes, squawked against Chamberlain's appeasers...
...Mountaineers named John H. Ross '48 as president; Robert S. McCarter '46, vice-president; Karl Wagner '46, secretary; and Lowell Chamberlain '49, treasurer...
...press descended on the Lord Chamberlain with whoops of joy. Said the London Daily Mirror's leader-writer: "What is clearly missing at the Lord Chamberlain's office is a share of that sense of humour which is Britain's priceless national possession. . . . Abolish the comedian, the cartoonist (and even the leader-writer) and there would soon be an Act of Parliament to restore them...
Claude Soman, producer of Between Ourselves, thought he understood the Lord Chamberlain's objection. Said Soman: "Apparently they don't mind what we say about the Government so long as we don't infer [sic] the Labor Government are not educated...