Menace Is Becoming An Over-Worked Word In Parliament Now
WELLINGTON, Last. Night (OC).— The word “menace” threatens to become another of the most, overworked of the words and phrases used by Parliamentarians. It was applied to iabbits and non-inspected meat and noxious weeds by speakers in the House of Representatives on Friday. The Deputy-Leader of the Opposition (Mr Nash) has perhaps been responsible for many of the overworked phrases occurring almost countless times in speech after speech. The current expression used to a point of tedium is “check it up”—the pet cry of Mr Nash and at times unconsciously repeated by Government members and on other occasions said deliber- J ately. Mr Nash s favourite express’ons in the last two sessions have been “in essence’ and “in the main,” with both of which, doubtless, he has mad? his mark with listeners to broadcasts oi Parliament. The only marked peculiarity in speeches by the Prime Minister (Mr Holland) is the occasional use of the rhetoric —‘‘Isn’t it?”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 31 October 1950, Page 4
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