Word: macdonaldization
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...Hearstpapers editorialed: "But why necessarily an American? Ramsay MacDonald, Mussolini, Premier Yenizelos, the almost-Emperor Henry Pu Yi, Mr. Litvinov of the Soviets, King Zog, the King of Siam and the Maharaja of Mysore wear 'em. Horn-rimmed glasses have become international. They are still the best first-aid to those desirous of that intellectual look. The real ultra-highbrows, of course, cling severely to a pince-nez with black ribbons...
...iron gates (which prudent bobbies had locked) stood like Gibraltar while Admiral Nelson looked down from his Trafalgar Column and saw the line of bobbies hold. A second mob, however, had rushed down Whitehall, 5,000 strong, heading for No. 10 Downing St., the residence of Prime Minister MacDonald. This mob was briefly checked, until police reserves could rush up and beat it back, by a thin line of ornate, scarlet-coated heroes, the Royal Horse Guards?erroneously supposed by tourists to be good for nothing but the ceremony of "changing the guard...
...carriage, tips his straw hat far to one-side, sings songs which are relayed endlessly by the other members of the cast, and in the end marries the princess, as dukes and dowager queens drop away in dead faints. Maurice is a tailor this time and the princess, Jeanette MacDonald, is only a relic French one. The plot is the usual one and the actor is the same, with the varnish and the pronunciation only slightly marred by rough American usage...
Knowing that the "means test" is the chief grievance of Britain's unemployed, Scot MacDonald summoned his Cabinet in hasty session. Later a spokesman said the National Government were "planning to remove harsh features of the means test," planning for example to let an unemployed man exclude his property or capital (if any) from his statement of "means" which would be defined hereafter as covering only current income...
...municipal landslide against the Conservatives might force Scot MacDonald to "go to the country" in a general election. In an absent-minded moment last week the Prime Minister drew ironic Labor cheers by remarking to the House: ''Neither protection nor free trade can by itself cure unemployment, which is caused by the breakdown of the present social system...