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...daughters. Nancy thought she knew his real reason : there was only one W.C. in the House of Lords. As a parsimonious peer bringing up six daughters in a di minishing series of houses where the plumbing had not been much improved since the Black Death, his lordship knew how inconvenient females...
...brother-in-law or a sister-in-law legal even while the first spouse, though divorced, is still alive. Last week he tried again. Urging that his bill would eliminate the "great hardship" of perhaps 1,000 Britons presently living in "irregular unions" with in-laws, his lordship argued that "if a man cannot be forced to marry his sister-in-law, it may even encourage him to commit adultery with...
...many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday edition in one sitting, through and through, every word...
...note of undue levity entered debate in Britain's House of Lords. Occasion: their lordships' second reading of the Street Offences Bill, aimed at giving streetwalkers a red light. In his maiden speech, the Earl of Arran, 55, disclosed that he has been "carrying out a personal research-with the aid of the authorities and also through conversations with some of the unhappy ladies." His awesomely exact conclusion: "One in every 544 adult women in Metropolitan London is a harlot." Then dignity-packed Earl Howe, 75, felt compelled to report upon some involuntary research...
...wing newspapers and stirring up the natives. Visiting M.P.s such as Laborite John Stonehouse ("really quite harmless, except that he was extremely ignorant") had been completely taken in by the Africans, who "until they are very much advanced are all liars." When the hubbub in the House subsided, His Lordship went on to talk about the "burden, at any rate, the mission [of] looking after Nyasaland. I should like to say that the people in the Federation have not the slightest intention of surrendering Nyasaland to destruction by its own people...