Word: lorded
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...weapon for the team has been the passing of quarterback Dick. Zimmerman, with end Carter Lord and halfback Don Sadoski the leading receivers...
...task done, Gerald Austin Gardiner, 64, the Labor Government's Lord High Chancellor, returned to the 20th century and a tough legal challenge: a complete reformation of outdated British...
...giving him power to prune the legal thicket, the Labor Government has chosen a barrister who is said to know more about common law than any man alive. Rarely has a new Lord Chancellor been so acclaimed. Gardiner is "probably the only left-wing lawyer unreservedly admired by a right-wing bar," says the London Sunday Times. The nonpolitical English Law Society predicts that "he will make the form of the law a living thing in the lives of the people...
...Lord Chancellor Gardiner has a job centuries older than the Prime Minister's, a title once held by two English saints (Becket, More) and Francis Bacon, a $34,000 salary that is tops in the British government, and the unique power to simultaneously help make, execute and interpret the laws of Britain. As the government's chief legal adviser, Gardiner is a top-level Cabinet officer. As head of the legal profession, he appoints judges and Queen's Counsel (senior barristers). As Speaker of the House of Lords, he perches on the symbolic Woolsack, also presides when...
...Lord Sebastian Flyte, in Brideshead Revisited >Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh is a Tivian with a lifelong and unswerving Hatred of the 20th century's industrialized, democratized ways. From his first irrespressibly comic, murderously sar-comic novels (Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies), most of Waugh's books have vad as their real subject the loss of a golden age. Looking back, the Oxford Vlnd Mayfair targets Waugh satirized in Viene '20s and '30s have largely vanished, Baking with them half the early novels' Viumor but leaving the rage intact. After World War II he suddenly...