After the firm establishment of the Irish Free State, [Winston] Churchill would continue to hold office until the depression. Then, he found himself in the political wilderness. But, unlike [David] Lloyd George, he would not find himself tripping to Berchtesgaden to prostrate himself before Adolf Hitler in admiration. Perhaps he had learned something from Michael Collins—never bend the knee to the tyrant.

bovine spongiform encephalopathy is more commonly known by its abbreviated form BSE.

The invisible hand is an oft-used metaphor for the free market.

Perilous as her eyeglances were, and much as they menaced, Lord Etherington felt at this moment the importance of soothing Lady Penelope to silence […].