Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canned pears, apricot nectar and Fig Newtons. Special baggage: the white Bible his wife Joyce, a Seventh-day Adventist, carried on their wedding day. Over the lonely Pacific, Boling. son of a Baptist minister, put the plane on automatic pilot, thumbed his favorite Proverbs, e.g., "The eyes of the Lord are in every place...
Brazen Doors. Most Harley houses are owned by the estate of Lord Howard de Walden, whose agents are careful to lease them only to physicians of high repute. Other landlords have been less scrupulous. A dozen buildings have been carved into warrens of one-room offices." and these are shared by so many doctors that they have become little more than mail drops for fee-hungry physicians who know the value of a Harley Street address. A single doorway may be almost solidly covered with as many as 40 brass name plates. Some names stand for reputable young consultants...
...come down to being the wife of the dim, unemployable Jeavons ("He was something left over from the war"). One could meet "absolutely anybody" at Lady Molly's, including her cats, her "four principal dogs," and her monkey called Maisky (after the Soviet ambassador). "Not long ago Lord Amesbury looked in on his way to a Court ball, wearing knee breeches and the Garter. Lady Molly was giving the vet a meal she had cooked herself...
...where he may or may not have been the hero of an absurd cavalry charge, now a court official ("standing about at Buck House"), who likes to play Gounod's Ave Maria on a cello and has late in life taken up with Freud, Jung and Adler. C| Lord Warminster, from a decayed family who "probably made their money out of the Black Death" (1348-49); he is currently spending the last of the Black Death bonanza in sponsoring left-wing causes, and is suspected of hoping that when his estate is turned into a collective farm, he will...
...civilized world. Even the many who cannot stomach him have no option but to respond to the mere word Jeeves with a mental picture of a whole society; while to those who lap him up, a whole corner of mental life is occupied by such characters as Lord Emsworth, Lord ("Uncle Fred") Ickenham, Bertie Wooster, Mr. Mulliner, Psmith and that great Sheba of sows, "Empress of Blandings...