Word: masterman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only has the press been inundated with correspondence, but the religious weeklies are battling royally. As C. F. G. Masterman describes these debates, they have been wages, "It must be confessed, with a ferocity and bitterness which offers a dismal contrast to the testimony of these amiable and eminent men, not credible to Christian apologists...
...Said Charles F.G. Masterman of him: "Music is not only a negation but a torture, and he once confessed to me that the long choral services of St. Paul's were a physical misery to him, sometimes becoming almost unendurable...
...minor scene occurred when Mr. Masterman, Liberal, made a request for information to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. The Chancellor thought the request offensive and said: "My right honorable friend can understand from the answer exactly what his intelligence enables him to apprehend." Thereupon loud cries of "Withdraw!" rent the air. The speaker said he did not think the question was offensive and the Opposition (Conservative) and Liberal cries turned to cheers...