"I confidently expect that we shall continue to be grouped with mothers-in-law and Wigan Pier as one of the recognized objects of ridicule."
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On the civil service, in Portrait of a Profession: The Civil Service Tradition (1950)
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Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
Edward Ettingdene Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges (4 August 1892 – 27 August 1969) was a British civil servant.
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