Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech with caustic cries of "Hear, hear!", hoots of laughter and shouts of "Resign, resign!" Distrustful financial analysts doubted that spending had been reduced enough to stiffen the pound, and Laborites were bitterly resentful of the domestic curbs. For all the pained outcries, however, only one Cabinet member resigned-Lord Longford, leader of the House of Lords. The rest of the Cabinet, including some who had been expected to leave, stayed on with the justification that no single Cabinet department had been singled out to bear the brunt of austerity. But it was a sullen Commons that gave Wilson, drained...
...lifetime of art purchases. Valued at upwards of $2,000,000, they range from Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni's 1913 Dynamism of a Soccer Player, through Arp, Klee, Pollock, De Kooning, and wind up with portraits of Janis by Segal and Marisol. The onetime maker of M'Lord Shirts bought his first Matisse in 1926, went on to become one of Manhattan's most successful art dealers. Still sprightly at 71, he has given his collection to the Modern. In any other city, it would be enough to start a museum...
...Incredible Victory, Lord...
...bevies of international beauties every bit as dazzling as any courtesan painted by Watteau or Fragonard. Their names tumbled out of Burke 's Peerage, the Almanack de Gotha and the Social Register. From London, there was the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, Lady Astor, and the young dandy Lord Lichfield; from Madrid, Count and Countess de Romanones-Quintanilla, and from Rome, Donna Allegra Caracciolo. Paris sent Princess Peggy d'Arenberg and Dubonnet-Maker André Dubonnet; from Manhattan flew Marylou Whitney (with a sequined bee on her bonnet), along with Newport's Jimmy and Candy Van Alen...
...Minister's suit against the International Herald Tribune, British newspapers were compelled to be even more oblique. All the Daily Telegraph felt able to say, for example, was that the "Prime Minister's solicitors confirm that, when in New York on other matters," Wilson's counsel, Lord Goodman, "agreed to attend a meeting of lawyers to discuss the possibility of disposing by agreed settlement the serious legal complaint made by the Prime Minister against an international publication...