Word: ewart
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...cannot doubt," said William Ewart Gladstone in 1845, "that a decimal system of coinage would be of universal advantage in monetary transactions." Nonetheless, Gladstone warned against "any decisive step" until "the subject has been thoroughly sifted and is well understood by the public." Last week Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd announced that the government is appointing a new committee (the sixth since 1824) to sift the practical problems of currency reform. If they do not prove overwhelming, promised Lloyd, the government will definitely adopt a decimalized currency-possibly...
...question, which no longer seems urgent, was debated amid burning interest 90 years ago by London's Metaphysical Society, whose members included Cardinal Manning. William Ewart Gladstone and Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Society represented a kind of summit conference in the cold war between science and religion -a war that made the Victorian mind, for all its surface confidence, highly fissionable...
...joined the Marxist Social Democratic Federation, and thought seriously (he later said) of bombing William Ewart Gladstone to death in the House of Commons. Instead, he took up journalism, brazened his way to the editorship of the Evening News. At first, he ran it "as a scholar and man of the world of twenty-eight"-without success; "but as I went downwards and began to edit as I felt at twenty, then at eighteen, I was more successful; but when I got to my tastes at fourteen years of age, I found instantaneous response. Kissing and fighting were the only...