Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Riviera, Amateur Painter Merle Oberon dropped into Lord Beaverbrook's villa to show one of her seascapes to Amateur Painter Winston Churchill. "What are those little white specks?" asked Churchill. "Sailing boats," replied Merle, unabashed. Said Churchill, recovering gallantly: "You have a nice eye for color." Then the two looped arms and went off for a swim...
...owner of Stan Musial's & Biggie's Steak House in St. Louis, he strolls among the restaurant's potted palms every evening that he is free, smiling shyly at his guests. Even if the restaurant business should fail, he could always go back and become lord mayor of Donora, where special scoreboards keep the home-town faithful posted on every hit Stan Musial makes every...
...high (and would cut down the amount of goods Britain would be able to buy in the U.S.) now cried that U.S. prices were too low; British manufacturers could not compete with them. Other Laborite headlines: "Stop the Sneers," "Warning to Americans," "They Are Slinging Mud at Britain." Tory Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had its own summary of these goings-on, and it was all but unique in Britain: "Judging by the undignified outburst of hysterical resentment...it looks as though all we can take today is dollars. But criticism? Never...
...biggest sugar company, Tate & Lyle, decided to fight back. On the 2,000,000 cartons of sugar it sells daily, Tate &. Lyle printed: "Keep S Out of State"; "Tate, Not State"; "Untouched by Hand-Hands Off Sugar." Last week, after two months of campaigning, Tate & Lyle's Lord Lyle charged that the Ministry of Food had tried to throttle his propaganda. Not so, said the Ministry: "Lord Lyle's statement mystifies us. The ministry has no powers, to intervene...
...aware of the gifts he did not have; he once said he would have given everything he had done for the spontaneous lyric quality of Suckling or Lovelace. As a philosophical poet he almost never crystallized the clouds of theistic faith that filled his head. The great Lord Acton spoke of "the airiness of his metaphysics, the indefiniteness of his knowledge, his neglect of transitions." His criticism was put more gaily by Algernon Swinburne in his parody of Tennyson's Higher Pantheism...