Word: morrisonism
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...Feckless William Shepherd ("Shakespeare") Morrison lost both the Ministry of Food and the Chancellery of the Duchy of Lancaster, but Neville Chamberlain and Captain Margesson found a seat for this faithful Party hack in the Postmaster Generalship, where he cannot be heckled as farmers and consumers have heckled him. Postmaster General Major George Clement Tryon was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with the additional sop of a baronage...
Dean Leighton's committee consists of Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin and of History, Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, Theodore Morrison '32, lecturer in English and director of English A, and John M. Potter '26, assistant professor of History and Literature...
...Majesty's impatient Loyal Opposition in Parliament demanded action. Eloquent Laborite Herbert S. Morrison wanted "more vigor and liveliness" in war and diplomacy than he felt Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who turned 71 at week's end, has been giving. Retired Permanent Secretary to the Treasury Sir Warren Fisher was blunter. "We are up against the creed of the devil," he said...
...common-sense attitude which realizes that most Freshmen need to learn to write and to think--clearly, accurately, simply--before they can afford literary luxuries. The new Briggs-Copeland Instructorships, bringing to Harvard five "coming" young writers as English A section men, promise well. But while Professor Morrison and his confreres sip tea and nibble crumpets of an afternoon, let English A stick to its new broad bottomed beef-and-ale outlook...
Known as the Briggs-Copeland Instructorships, they are named after former University teachers of composition; Le Baron R. Briggs '16 and Charles Townsend Copeland '82. The course will be under the direction of Theodore Morrison, English lecturer and former Associate Editor of the Atlantic Monthly...