Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech and the spate of words in the United Nations are quite incredible and in time become insupportable.'' complained New Zealand's delegate. Sir Carl Berendsen. Pakistan's Zafrullah Khan once talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked record." Sometimes U.N. humor has been less intentional, as when Warren Austin advised the Arabs and the Jews...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, long in the habit of addressing himself boldly to posterity, celebrated his 86th birthday by spouting pronouncements on everything from the skyscraper ("Ought to go out into the country . . . cast its shadow on its own ground") to the drift toward equalitarianism ("Going to be the death of democracy"). Then, with boyish glee, he burbled: "As for me, if I felt any better I couldn't stand...
With mischief aforethought, Colorado Springs's Free Press sent sketches of the projected Air Force Academy (TIME, May 23) to cantankerous old (85) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, asked him for his comments. Replied Wright: "[It looks to me] as if another factory had moved in where it should not be. [It] will probably be known as Talbott's Aviary, or, more realistically, a factory for birdmen." Then Wright, suggesting that sketches of the Academy's controversial, spare-ribbed chapel be studied for ten years and then thrown away, lowered a cantilevered boom on his Chicago competition: "When...
...once great party of Gladstone and Lloyd George was now contesting only 109 seats. Lloyd George's son Gwilym was now a Tory minister. Lloyd George's daughter. Lady Megan, last month gave up Liberalism for Labor, saying it was the only refuge for honest radicals. "We're gone now." an old Liberal in Mid-Bed conceded. "This year we haven't even got a candidate. There's some 6.000 of us has got to choose between the Tories and the Socialists...
...comparative scores can never tell the whole story. The Crimson squad has improved to a startling degree, and is beginning to show signs of real strength. Then too, the Elis will be without their star attackman, Bruce Lloyd, who was averaging five goals a game until mid-season, when he was declared ineligible under Ivy League rules because he was in his ninth term at Yale...