Word: illingworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Britain's topflight political cartoonists, L. G. (for Leslie Gilbert) Illingworth, 53, of Punch and London's Daily Mail, was long regarded as one of the best draftsmen, but weak on ideas. In recent months he has gained new attention by his work for Punch, where the satiric ideas of Editor Malcolm Muggeridge often guide the Illingworth hand. A recent Illingworth-Muggeridge view of British politics showed Prime Minister Eden and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, both dressed as Nero, saying to each other: "I can fiddle a damned sight better than you." Other favorite targets have included...
...never bad to pick up a crying baby unless he has already been spoiled by being picked up too often at the slightest whimper, Sheffield's Professor Ronald S. Illingworth wrote in the British Medical Journal. The only time it is right to let a child "cry it out" is when he is being broken of a crying habit for which parents are to blame...
Hothead. In Leeds, England, Edna Illingworth got a divorce after testifying that her husband Richard 1) tied her up in the cellar, 2) bound her hands to a nail above her head, and 3) doused her with a bucketful of water "to cool...