Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile campaign tour, the President stopped off in his opponent's home town to go to church, made a stop-and-go trip through downtown Phoenix, and did a little of his own preaching along the way. "Let's go to church and thank the good Lord for the U.S., for sunshine and freedom in the world," he told a Phoenix street crowd. "Love thy neighbor!" In Reno, he struck out at Goldwater, drawling that "we here in the West aren't about to turn in our sterling silver American heritage for a plastic credit card that...
...Lord Gardiner, 64, Lord Chancellor. Respected even by Tories as "the Prince of Lawyers," and noted for ruthless cross-examination in court, Gardiner has successfully defended such diverse cases as D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (obscenity) and Randolph Churchill (libel). He is a dedicated crusader against capital punishment. Son of a British shipping magnate and a German baroness, he is an unlikely Laborite who served for a time in the Coldstream Guards. As a young man he was so elegant and ennuied that his friends organized a group known as S.R.G.G.H. (Society for the Ruffling...
...tired of hiding my Jeep," bellows the lord of the manor, Curt Jurgens. To please his eccentric sister, he dresses in period costume and banishes all evidence of the 20th century from the family's isolated ancestral estate in the Swedish lake country. Jurgens' second wife is Monica Vitti, a sultry charmer who enjoys a casually incestuous relationship with her brother Sébastien (Jean-Claude Brialy) and soon begins cooing with Cousin Eric (Jean-Louis Trintignant...
Captain Rees Howell Gronow was a dapper, wicked little Welshman. He fought with distinction beside Wellington in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; he gossiped and gamed at the best clubs of Regency London. He matched wit and waistcoats with Beau Brummell, shot pistols with Lord Byron. And in his later years, he sat sucking the handle of his cane in the window of his Paris club while the Revolution of 1848 raged in the streets below. Then he wrote his reminiscences...
...hold this year's list to Wels and Lord would be a real oversight...