Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blonde Mrs. Edith Maria Reuss Lord went into Manhattan supreme court with a tale of marital strife which sounded like a metropolitan replay of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Her manufacturer husband, Robert P. Lord, had armed men to bar her from their apartment, she said, so she had gathered up a squad of private detectives, recaptured the place and held it with a crew of shotgun-packing guards for eleven weeks...
...celebrated lung power to help him blow out the candles. Later on, she let it be known that in a forthcoming movie she would take a fling at the role of Ophelia, in a strictly jive version of Hamlet. Sample lyrics, written for her by Frank (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) Loesser...
...Lord, who preferred to build motorcars, quit Nuffield with the observation: "I am pigheaded, and Nuffield has his opinions." He went to work for Austin Motors, became its chairman when Lord Austin died...
...while Nuffield was still honking along with cars made from prewar dies, Lord rolled out a spanking new, postwar-model Austin for the U.S. and Canadian market. Last year he sold $22 million worth in the U.S. and Canada. Nuffield had to content himself with selling his prewar cars in the Empire and soft-currency areas in Europe, while he changed over to his postwar models...
With his new four-cylinder models, Nuffield promised to give Lord a stiff race for U.S. sales. The Morris Minor convertibles (see cut) and sedans will retail for $1,555 or less in New York (v. Austin's $1,595); the slightly bigger Morris Oxford for $2,100. Smaller than U.S. cars (147½ inches overall v. 196¾ inches for Fords), the Minors get 35 miles to the gallon, have a top speed of 65 m.p.h...