Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Jamaica sun, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and his wife flew into a London evening lit fitfully by a pale moon amidst scudding rain clouds. Tanned and in almost obliviously good spirits, Eden read a prepared statement before banked television cameras, as Lord Privy Seal R. A. Butler sat unsmiling and pale beside...
...When the British and French protested at exclusion of the 18-ship salvage fleet that was already at work raising wrecks at Port Said, General Wheeler cautiously suggested that six of Britain's salvage ships might be used-without their British crews. This was too much for First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Hailsham who huffed that Wheeler "seems more concerned with placating Cairo than with carrying out U.N. wishes for speedy restoration of the canal...
...after meeting Harry Truman for the first time in Washington, Vicky blurted: "I congratulate you." When Truman asked, "What for?" Vicky explained: "For looking more like my caricatures than I thought you did." In Vicky's gallery, Khrushchev looks like a Charles Addams rendering of a prizefighter; Lord Beaverbrook, empire-building publisher of the Mirror's opposition Daily Express, is a big-mouthed dwarf in crusader's armor; Churchill is a cigar-waving Dickensian comic...
...half. He came up with 7,487 promises by God to man, two by God the Father to God the Son, 991 by one man to another (such as the servants who promised to interpret King Nebuchadnezzar's dream), 290 by man to God, e.g., "O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise" (Psalms 51:15). Twenty-eight promises were made by angels, one by man to an angel, and two were made by an evil spirit to the Lord. Satan made nine, as when he promised the world to Christ "if thou...
...Died. Lord Quickswood, 87 (formerly Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil), longtime (1895-1906, 1910-37) Tory Member of Parliament and later (1936-44) provost of Eton, best man at the 1908 wedding of his lifelong friend Sir Winston Churchill; of a heart attack; in Bournemouth, England. A High Churchman who deplored nonconformists, Lord Hugh objected in 1938 to Unitarian Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's advising the Crown on the appointment of Anglican bishops, observed darkly: "If we lived in the reign of King Henry VIII, a Unitarian would not be in Downing Street. He would be burned...