Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days earlier Lord Lloyd, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, had flown down to Aden to lay down a similar line. Greeted by a turbulent crowd that stoned his car, Lord Lloyd was firm. "I should like you to under stand," he told the Aden Legislative Counil, "that for the foreseeable future it would not be reasonable or sensible, or indeed in the interests of the colony's inhabitants, for them to aspire to any aim beyond that of a considerable degree of self-government . . . Her Majesty's government wish to make it clear that...
...hand against England for more than 40 years, Duquesne dated his checkered career as international intriguer back to the Boer War (1899-1902). A cool, cunning poseur, he signed his reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed to have plotted the sinking (1916) of Lord Kitchener's cruiser Hampshire. Chief G-man J. Edgar Hoover called his concerted FBI swoop (in 1941) on Duquesne's New York City mob the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history...
...called me a perverter of the minds of Catholic children." At the farthest poles are Brooklyn's Tablet and Manhattan's radical-pacifist Catholic Worker. When she was asked where the two papers might come together, the Worker's Publisher Dorothy Day replied: "Only at the Lord's table." Items...
...Each His Own. In Edinburgh, Scotland, the National Bible Society, citing an error in translation of the Lord's Prayer in the Negro republic of Liberia, said that the phrase, "Lead us not into temptation," was interpreted by Christians there as "Do not catch us when...
Haydn's masterly "Lord Nelson Mass" presented in Memorial Church on May 13 by Harvard and Radcliffe freshman choruses. Titled by Haydn a Mass in D-Minor, it is nevertheless drawn more often than not, like Bach's B-Minor Mass, into the happy and festive key of D-Major. Performance enormously impressive. First two parts conducted by Cornelia Davenport, last three by Allan Miller. Choristers obviously very carefully rehearsed; tone lacked full-bodied resonance, but mustn't expect from them the quality of Mr. Woodworth's varsity singers. Vocal soloists adequate for the most part. No small amount...