Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founded the Oxford Group. M.R.A.'s predecessor. Lean, trim and handsome at 56, Howard was in his day one of Oxford's athletic greats, eight times a star on Britain's international rugby team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model farm in East Anglia, has turned out 16 plays (including Garden Wall); the royalties from his writing, $1,120,000 in all, have gone...
...LORD CHESTERFIELD: "Few Would-be servants of God put so much energy into their task as Chesterfield puts into the service of Mammon. The load carried by Bunyan's Christian was almost light compared with the burden imposed by this Worldly Wiseman on his unfortunate offspring. He felt that life held no greater good than to please it and be pleased by it. He tells his son: 'We shall not converse much together, for I cannot stand awkwardness; it would endanger my health...
Time had run out, but Harvard still had its conversion attempt coming. Disdaining a kick that would have tied the game, quarterback Ben Smith dropped back and whipped a high pass to Carter Lord, cutting over the middle from his right end position. Lord leaped and grabbed it between three Dartmouth defenders and Harvard...
Smith hit Lord for 15 yards and an interference penalty gave Harvard a first down at the Indians' 13-yard line...
...Kelly of the First Foot Guards, a grand dandy so proud of his precious, gleaming boots that he burned to death trying to save them from a fire; and muscular Dan Mackinnon, who "used to amuse his friends by creeping over the furniture like a monkey." In Lisbon with Lord Byron, Mackinnon spied two nude Portuguese beauties at their morning ablutions across from his hotel, but he was horrified to see that they used no toothbrushes. He sent them some, and was even more horrified when the girls used them to brush their hair...