Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original." exclaimed Picasso triumphantly. In fact, Picasso had acquired the site his predecessor and mentor made famous with a number of late and exemplary canvases. The event itself is striking, the stuff of which Maupassant stories are made. The virtuoso pupil becomes lord of the very scene where his master of old perished neglected and alone. The act embodies a particularly exalted form of homage; it also represents an exotic sort of justice, ironic and bitter...
Married. Frank Loesser, 48, music man who wrote the book, music and lyrics for Broadway's The Most Happy Fella, the music and lyrics for Guys and Dolls, and scores of popular songs, including Baby It's Cold Outside, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, On a Slow Boat to China; and Actress-Singer Jo Sullivan (real name: Elizabeth Josephine Jacobs), 31, who played Rosabella, the mail-order bride, in The Most Happy Fella; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...indignant Letter to the Editor, Lyricist Lias asked the Guardian: "If we believe in God, surely it cannot be wrong to ask for his help-as the Lord's Prayer does-in delivering the world from fear and violence." NATO itself, being anxious to keep the peace, made clear that it had blessed no hymns. "If any hymn was ever proposed to the NATO Council," said one official, "it would have a good deal more trouble getting approved than any note to Khrushchev...
...fervor as the Samaritans squat or kneel on the ground, wearing wide cloth belts and holding wooden staves-"and thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover...
...Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick him with . . . dud Smelly River Ordinaries"*-and, of course, there are the usual Wodehousian references to or quotations from Shakespeare and Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Lord Tennyson and Publishers Knopf, Holt, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster-all balled up together...