Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until the late 19th century, the main qualifications for a Foreign Office job were a good family, a smattering of languages, and big, clear handwriting. During Lord Palmerston's 16 years as Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, state papers were constantly returned from 10 Downing Street with testy quibbles on the writer's grammar or his handwriting, which, Palmerston insisted, should slope forward, not backward "like the raking masts of an American schooner...
...Newfoundland bitch, Pam, to the office, where she startled visitors by leaping onto their shoulders and removing their hats. An air of amiable amateurishness is carefully cultivated in Britain's public schools, and often seems to pervade its diplomacy. On the eve of World War II, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax drawled: "I distrust anyone who foresees consequences and advocates remedies to avert them...
...seemed only right to ask Lord Jellicoe, 45, to open London's international boat show. A son of a former admiral of the fleet and himself First Lord of the Admiralty, he is obviously the saltiest of salts. Except that he isn't. "This happens to be the first boat show I have ever been to," he confessed. And having let that out, he plunged full steam ahead. As a small boy he had capsized a good many more dinghies than most other small boys, and apart from "a bit of paddling" about the Mediterranean during...
...Trafalgar has always been a way to make history memorable-but imaginations often need more help than ordinary textbooks provide. So a clever Britisher has turned from books to kits: his Jackdaw No. I, dealing with Trafalgar, makes a child feel as if the Admiralty had bequeathed him Lord Nelson's personal files...
...given names is alookin' for trouble, pardner. If Duke can't handle the trouble himself, he can always call on his buddies on the Texas football team. After the way Carlisle and cronies walloped No. 2-ranked Navy in last week's Cotton Bowl, Lord help the loudmouth...