Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduated, Ensign Burke walked under crossed swords, amid all the pomp and circumstances of an Annapolis wedding, with pretty Roberta ("Bobbie") Gorsuch of Washington at his side. He had met her as a blind date, gone with her for three years, wearied his classmates with a favorite remark: "Lord, but that girl of mine is a wonder...
...Change. In the Daily Express Etonian John Loder defiantly announced that he often uses "Cheers" when at "ritzy houses just to watch the horrified looks I get." Complained three aristocratic ladies, including a daughter of Lord Kilmuir: "We all come from what we thought were U families, but ... we all say 'mantlepiece' and have sugar in our coffee. Does this mean that we must change our classification?" On the contrary, said Sir Robert Boothby. In order to achieve a really classless society, "we must all become U as quickly as possible." But can the non-U speaker ever...
...table-tapping seances, had long discussions with "Moliere, Shakespeare, Anacreon, Dante, Racine, Marat, Charlotte Corday, Latude, Mahomet, Jesus Christ, Plato, Isaiah . . . the Dove of the Ark, Balaam's Ass." All these apparitions agreed that Hugo was acting for the best; many spoke in excellent Hugo-istic verse. Lord Byron, however, insisted on speaking English...
...Bavaria, the locals of Mindelheim hopefully awaited a visit from their greatest living hereditary "prince." His better-known name: Sir Winston Churchill. The Mindelheimers reckoned that Sir Winston, a sixth-generation grandson of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was a liege lord of theirs through his descent from that ancestor, who was paid off in 1705 with the principality of Mindelheim for military aid to the Holy Roman Empire. In Britain, however, killjoy scholars stuffily pointed out that Sir Winston is merely a collateral descendant of the great Marlborough-and that only eight years after the princedom† was established...
...summer day, quickened for today's viewers by nostalgia for that quieter age. Everett Shinn, one of the original Ash Can Eight, recorded another facet of the feather boa era in Trapeze, owned by Wall Streeter Arthur Goodhart Altschul ('43). A painter who often exclaimed, "Lord, I love the theater," Shinn depicted the flashing figures onstage at Manhattan's Winter Garden Theater. Shinn, with an old vaudeville fan's admiration for the acrobats' split-second timing, showed that he had a keen and appreciative eye for a pair of long silk-stockinged legs as well...