Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long has this been going on?" asked the late advertising tycoon Albert Davis Lasker (onetime head of Lord & Thomas), one afternoon in 1943. Before him, set up on easels in Manhattan's Wildenstein galleries, stood a $70,000 Gauguin and a $45,000 Renoir. For the man who made such products as Lucky Strike, Palmolive, Pepsodent, Kleenex and Kotex into household words, the world of art was opening. On hand to coach and whet his appetite was his wife Mary, who had majored in art at Radcliffe, gone on to help run a Manhattan gallery...
Jews, Christians and Moslems recognize Abraham as a common spiritual ancestor, and all three faiths look to the Genesis account of how the Lord told him: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation.'' What were Abraham's country and kindred like, and what sort of land did God show him? Modern scholarship, drawing on the latest findings of archaeology and textual research, is able to propose answers to those questions...
...geological fault, and a shift in this, it is thought, touched off an internal explosion of petroleum gas which in turn sent tons of flaming asphalt, marl, salt and limestone high into the air to descend on the helpless cities as brimstone and fire out of heaven, from the Lord...
...probably on a high place that Abraham made the everlasting covenant of his people with the Lord and received God's instructions to revive the ancient Canaanite rite of circumcision as a token of participation in that covenant. And it was also to a mountain that Abraham went, ready to perform the act that still stands as a supreme symbol of human faithfulness to God's command-the sacrifice of Isaac, his only...
...Haven't I always treated you as a human being?" splutters Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), the parlor pink. "Most certainly not!" gasps Butler Crichton (Kenneth More), the pantry tyrant. "Your treatment to me has always been as it should be." When Lord Loam insists, Crichton persists: "Any satisfaction I might derive from being equal [to my master] would be ruined by the footman being equal...