Word: woolsack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...kicking in the belly a gardener who tried to prevent her wrecking a flower bed. Her father, who told her macabre fairy stories and took her to prize fights, encouraged her "to be cheeky before solemn statesmen," allowed her to bounce up & down on the lord chancellor's woolsack. But "if we were naughty," says Lady Eleanor of herself and friends, "we were certainly never nasty...