Word: neckedness
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In 1927, with two years of his term unexpired, Horatio Bottomley was released. For a while it looked as though he were about to stage a great comeback. Attempting another John Bull he started John Blunt, which gained an immediate circulation of 500,000 by promising disclosures of hideous tortures...
Long-necked Eamon de Yalera. President of the Irish Free State's Executive Council, wants an Irish Republic without bloodshed.* Until he can get it he rankles under "symbols" of British sovereignty. Such was the British flag which no longer flaps over Dublin's Government buildings. Such was...
In Great Britain the Budget is an ancient red leather despatch box which rests on a table in the House of Commons and for most of the year serves as a convenient elbow rest for weary orators. In parliamentary language the British Budget is not "presented" but "opened" once a...
Now, however, three publishers of college text books have instituted court proceedings against a college tutor who, they claim, has violated the copyrights on their properties by reprinting them in condensed form. This may be one approach to the cramming school problem, and it is easy to see where official...
In the meeting room of the House Naval Affairs Committee stands a screen made from panels of the old U. S. S. Illinois, a table fashioned from the windlass top of the Maine, a glass case containing models of airplanes. Atop the glass case rides an 18-in. model of...