Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family & Early Life: Greatgrandfather was a political émigré who fled Austrian rule in Italy after Napoleonic Wars, settled down in England in Lamb House, Rye (later the home of Novelist Henry James) with his bride, a cousin of Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Young Harold Caccia (pronounced Catch-a) went to Eton, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford...
...Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; Larid Bell '04, Chicago lawyer; Walter S. Gifford '05, honorary chairman of the board of American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Joseph C. Grew '02, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Learned Hand '93, former judge, U.S. Circuit Court, New York; John Lord O'Brian '96, Washington lawyer; and Eliot Wadsworth '98, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph (circ. 1,075,460), an old Conservative faithful, revealed its instinctive reaction-and its ignorance of what was brewing...
...Common wealth, feared that there would be a "strong reaction" from the Arab world. Demanded the Times: "Was the need for speed really so great that President Eisenhower had to hear about the Anglo-French ultimatum from press reports?" There were also uneasy questions from Lord Rothermere's staunchly Tory Daily Mail (circ. 2,071,708), another August advocate of force...
...booms a big, creamy bass voice that sounds like nothing so much as a TV announcer making a pitch for a local funeral home. At such moments it is impossible to avoid the impression that the moviemaker, no doubt without intending to, has taken the name of the Lord in vain...