Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patience," says seasoned Colonial Hand Lord Malvern, former Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, "is essential; gradualness is absolutely necessary." But in newly awakened Middle Africa, there is little desire for patience. Of the many lessons the African has learned from his white masters, some.good, some bad, one at least is that of the excitement of hurry. Today, in a continent-wide parody of the threatening game of childhood, encouraged by his masters, egged on by his more intemperate playmates, the African child is standing up in his cradle and shouting aloud to the world: "Coming, ready...
...second front page"-Knight's gambit to inveigle readers as far as page 3-devoted a banner head and five columns to tax stories, including tips on evasion of state taxes by Columnist Jack Mabley and a dispatch from London, where Editor Walters, on tour, was busily exposing Lord Beveridge and Britain's womb-to-tomb social-security system...
More than 500 billboards, thousands of orange-and-black bumper tags and regular TV and radio announcements proclaimed Graham's advent. In Madison Square Garden, still flavored with the tang of the recently departed circus, huge, fragrant vanloads of flowers were unloaded. For Billy, who calls himself "the Lord's master of ceremonies," carpenters hoisted a towering pulpit. "Every seat will be a good seat . . . There'll be nothing between him and you," a crusade official explained. "We always design it that...
...round-shouldered retired British officer who looks not unlike a solemn parrot, is addicted to bird watching, and lives quietly with his wife in the gardener's cottage of his estate in Hampshire. Most U.S. readers would stare blankly if asked to identify Field Marshal Alan Brooke, now Lord Alanbrooke. But Bryant's The Turn of the Tide, based on Alanbrooke's wartime diaries, has already sold 70,000 copies in England and has whipped up strong resentment among military men both in Britain and the U.S. The book makes its hero seem to have been...
...Lord Alanbrooke has recently indiscreetly revealed," Morison added, "Mr. Churchill was very often difficult to dissuade from some favorite objective...