Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scott closed with the prayer of a Herero chief: "O Lord, help us who roam about . . . Give us back a dwelling place...
...Lord Rothschild was having trouble giving away Rushbrooke Hall, the family home near Bury St. Edmunds, England. Two neighborhood councils had already turned down the gift of the 60-room mansion, which has 365 windows in need of washing, would require one ton of coal daily to be heated properly for a school or hospital...
...piece of impudence," cried tall, gimlet-eyed Lord Vansittart, 68, in Britain's House of Lords last week. Bristling with rage, the onetime (1930-38) Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office told his peers how the Soviet news agency Tass ("a nest of guttersnipes") had wriggled out of a libel suit filed by Vladimir Krajina, Czech refugee and onetime resistance fighter. The Soviet Embassy had declared Tass a state organ (TIME, July 11), and a British court had no choice but to grant diplomatic immunity to Tass, which had accused Krajina of being a traitor. Krajina...
...rendition of the myth of the creation of the world by Kali, the dread goddess who must create and destroy what she creates. Another effectively sinuous number of what was perhaps a spotty program was the story of Savitri, a charming legend of a faithful wife who cheats the Lord of Death of her husband in a neat pantomine...
...items as the fifth and final manuscript of the Gettysburg Address ($54,000), the Bay Psalm Book, first book published In the U.S. ($151,000), the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland ($50,000), and a lock of George Washington's hair. His biggest sale was in 1928, when Lord Duveen, British dealer and collector, paid $360,000 for Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon. That auction, from the estate of U.S. Steel's Judge Elbert Gary, brought a whopping $2.3 million, the alltime U.S. record...