Word: ladyship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change-rather than deep-six her again. In the movie the DEMS drops into waters unsafe for divers to repair the Titanic's hull. On the set, its operators insisted, DEMS was so sensitive it not only could pour tea but even unzip zippers. At that point, Her Ladyship decamped...
...Haines, who served as Wilson's press secretary from 1969 until the Prime Minister's retirement from No. 10 Downing Street last April, has drafted a poison-pen portrait of Lady Falkender more lacerating than the anti-Tory blasts that he used to ghostwrite for Harold. Her ladyship, it seems, was the epic back-room bully of British politics...
...Scots Cromwell: The Lord Protector); after 20 years of marriage, six children; in London. Eraser's suit for divorce was not contested by Lady Antonia, who has been living with Playwright Harold Pinter for more than a year. Pinter's wife. Actress Vivien Merchant, named her Ladyship corespondent in a suit in 1975, but has since decided not to press for a divorce...
Rose Harrison exhibits a minimal interest in her lady's position in political history. In true Upstairs/ Downstairs tone, she is insufferably proud of knowing her place and downright snobbish about her ignorance. "Before we went to Italy," Rose recalls vaguely, "her ladyship spoke to me and told me not to mention the name Mussolini. I suppose he must have come to power not too long before that time...
...most dangerous moment is when he's getting into his shirt," Oliver Mellors tells Lady Chatterley. "I prefer those American shirts that you put on like a jacket." Sure enough, while Maurice was trying on a particular shirt, "her ladyship ran her hand up and down my back." Came a day, after Maurice had driven Sir Francis to the airport for one more business trip, when she "entered the kitchen and said that she felt like cuddling and kissing me. I told her I was worried about my position. She replied, 'Nonsense...