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...Birds & the Flowers. The Honorable Members drifted in behind the procession to hear the solemn reading of the budget by big (6 ft. 3 in.) Hugh Dalton. Hearty Hugh Dalton had played to the hilt a role in another solemn custom of Budget Week. By British tradition a Chancellor of the Exchequer about to produce a budget is treated like a pregnant woman. He relaxes in the peaceful countryside, awaiting the great moment. The press lavishes solicitude, photographs him smiling bravely through his ordeal. Editorialists who have lambasted him unmercifully for months before the Great Event (and will flay...
Budget Day was always a solemn occasion for a nation of shopkeepers. Now, with the budget become an instrument of social and economic policy affecting every Briton's standard of life, Budget Day is more solemn than ever...
...dodges to discomfit his enemies. Whistler fought the world from the day he was kicked out of West Point for flunking chemistry. ("Had silicon been a gas,'' he is reported to have said, "I would have been a major general.") Between rounds, Whistler became instead an immensely solemn, self-absorbed artist, who turned his friends and the London fog into dim, delicate patterns and close harmonies of color...
Created by a solemn, helpless-looking Liverpudlian named Harry Hanan, Louie is a solemn, helpless-looking little man with a bald head, a deadpan, a huge nose resting firmly on a huge mustache. Louie has no fixed profession. Sometimes he is a barber (as was Hanan's father), sometimes a henpecked husband, a wistful bachelor, a timid burglar-but always a meek soul with an inferiority complex about women. Like his happily married creator, Louie suffers from a gnawing desire to snip feathers off women's hats...
Nervous excitement had swept the floor of the Palazzo Monte Citorio as the Assembly reached the Lateran question. Nobody but Togliatti and the Communists-and they were saving their surprise-was sure how the vote would divide. In the jammed public galleries there was a solemn checkerboard of Jesuit black, Franciscan brown, Dominican white-set off by the bright springtime pinks and blues of .snappily dressed women. The heads that craned forward were alternately tonsured and gaily feather-plumed...