Word: palmerston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among gouty notables: Kubla Khan, Alexander the Great; U.S. President James Buchanan, British Prime Ministers Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts, Neville Chamberlain; John Milton, Martin Luther, Tennyson, Benjamin Franklin, John Barrymore...
...amused, amusing manner, nothing of his skepticism and silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...
...course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...
...four occidental fellow-officers dropped ashore to bunk at Henry Meyer's middling Palmerston Hotel. Chow Jockie went to his room, began to unpack. Ten minutes later came a message: the guest must return his key. The Palmerston didn't cater to colored people...
...legend credits blustering Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston with instructing one of his envoys to China a century ago: "Never forget that you are the representative of Her Most Christian Majesty dealing with heathen barbarians." This week there was only one profane Chungking witticism to commemorate him: "If Lord Palmerston heard about this, he'd not only turn in his grave but jump high enough to fly a Spitfire...