Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drafty pile of Victorian granite opposite 10 Downing Street, it has been likened to a provincial Italian museum, a stranded gunboat, a monument to Muddling Through. Yet when the government announced plans last month to demolish the building, traditionalists reacted as if Eton were being nationalized. "Magnificently British!" harrumphed Lord Harrowby. "Representative of our greatest period!" snapped Lord Salisbury...
...fact, the Foreign Office was a Whitehall elephant almost from the day it opened in 1868. It was modeled on a Venetian palazzo, after Architect Sir Gilbert Scott's original Gothic façade was indignantly rejected by Prime Minister Lord Palmerston as "admirable for a monastery." (It later made an admirable Gothic railway station.) From a pompous exterior decked with 63 allegorical statues to regal suites designed more for la dolce vita than diplomacy, the building was so wildly inappropriate that within ten years after completion it was roundly condemned by a parliamentary commission...
Divorced. Norman Mailer, 39, novelist (The Naked and the Dead); by his second wife, Jeanne Campbell Mailer, 34, daughter of the Duke of Argyll, and columnist for her grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook; on grounds of incompatibility; after 20 months of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Brother of Alfred Harmsworth, British press lord who founded the Daily Mail and later became Lord Northcliffe; Harold, who took over after Alfred's death and became Lord Rothermere; and Cecil, a onetime Member of Parliament. All are dead...
...Pooh! I don't believe it," you say, not too one-uppishly: "It's not hard really, not nearly as hard as math. Mother told me my great-grandmother way back in the Dark Ages wrote hundreds and hundreds of novels. She was called Elinor Glyn and Lord Curzon was madly in love with her and I thought...