Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Were it not for my extreme faith in the Cunard White Star Line, I would have been somewhat bewildered by the statement (TIME, June 8) of A. P. Herbert, Punch's M. P., that there is a plate on the promenade deck of the Queen Mary recording that Lord Burghley ran a circuit of the deck-570 yd.-in 58 seconds, "untrained and unchanged...
...that's only part of the story. Lord Burghley ran in evening clothes. TIME did a sloppy bit of reporting here-neglected to mention whether 1) Tuxedo or formal, 2) stiff or soft bosom shirt, 3) high shoes or dancing pumps...
This Sir Samuel proposed to do not by equipping the League of Nations to enforce its judgments everywhere but by setting up under Geneva auspices brand new groupings of the powers with specific local machinery to enforce peace. "Suppose, for instance," declared the First Lord, "that the continental nations of Europe could form a United States of Europe, such as that conceived by the late Aristide Briand of France a decade ago, our troubles would be mitigated! Russia would be a unit. Similarly, the United States and its American friends would be a third unit...
...with brown hair and large eyes, the daughter of a well-to-do stocking-mender, her life as a courtesan was not sufficiently distinguished to win her a place in history. She exercised no political influence, such as her contemporary Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton, enjoyed through her hold on Lord Nelson. She never even inspired deep affection in her lovers. But as Harriette Wilson she traveled with the big names of a bad age, and her observation thereof has clinched for her the dubious honor of being the most articulate British prostitute...
When Harriette left her father she ran off with young Lord Craven to Brighton. A dull, contented young man, Craven was interested only in his experiments with cocoa trees and with his military instructions, constantly expounded both to amuse his young mistress. "It was, in fact," she recalled later, "a dead bore." She did not deceive Craven, although she often thought of it. "How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honorable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked to me of nothing else?" The Honorable Frederick was Craven's closest friend. "I firmly believe," Harriette wrote, "that...