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Only the Speaker remained unmoved … He made no explanation. He did not refer to orders or disorders. He simply adjourned the House till six that evening … I was not correct when I said that the Speaker was the only man who did not laugh. Woodhouse was beside me all the time. His face was set and quite white—as white, they told me, as Sir Thomas Ingell’s when he went, by request, to a private interview with his Chief Whip. |
This is from “The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat”. A pompous radical MP has been lampooned in the press, and made himself a national laughing stock. His career is over. |
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