Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your wife's pneumonia, Lord Godiva...
...heard the pastor, the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, offer a special prayer for the President of the U.S.: "Surround him with healing ministries that in the completeness of health and strength he may fulfill his high calling in the service of mankind through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Amen." And when the President, bundled up in a heavy blue overcoat, left the church after service, he shrugged off the helping hand of the pastor at his elbow, instead guided Mamie firmly down the steps. He smiled somewhat wistfully as a crowd of about 300 people outside the church broke into...
...Ernest Oppenheimer left aides breathless as he raced down into South Africa's mines or whisked surefootedly around the crags of high finance. "There's a special place in hell," he said impatiently, "for mining men who don't work with the deposits the good Lord has given them." Last week, a few minutes after joking with his son Harry, his doctor and his private secretary, Sir Ernest slumped over at the breakfast table with a heart attack. At 77, the "king of diamonds" was dead...
...with British Accent. "During the 18th century, for the first and only time in British history, an interest in and knowledge of the arts became fashionable," writes the present Duke of Wellington, for the exhibition's catalogue. The English gentry, he points out, enthusiastically studied the architectural plans Lord Burlington published of the Italian villas by Palladio, proceeded to plan their parks and redesign their stately homes, hanging the walls with Spitalfields silk and decorating them with the furniture of Chippendale. To furnish them with art, English artists labored prodigious hours at their easels...
...kind of Arcadia with a British accent. George Stubbs, Britain's finest horse painter, turned out landscapes populated with jockeys, grooms, owners and thoroughbred racers that not even hard-riding country squires found it possible to fault. One of Stubbs's best, Gimcrack with a Groom, shows Lord Bolingbroke's small, dark grey champion (27 firsts in 35 starts) being groomed (at left) and winning over the Newmarket course on July 12, 1765 (at right...