Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Pop, the P.M., was seeking election to Parliament in Scotland, Meriel Douglas-Home, 24, her two sisters and brother decided that they would renounce their courtesy titles (hers is Lady) because of "the love and favor and affection which they bear toward their parents." A few weeks before, Lord Home shed his own title to become just plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and that made the noble bit a little conspicuous for the children. Meriel took a proper commoner job as salesgirl at Bumpus, London's venerable bookshop. A photographer caught her melding into her new scenery during...
...Lord's Taverners are a group of British showbiz and sporting chaps who like to yuk it up in various sports that catch their fancy. At this year's outing the game was basketball-and against the court-clowning Harlem Globetrotters, no less. In the first half, the Globetrotters laughed their way to a 20-0 lead. But the script always calls for the Taverners to win. And so Prince Philip, 42, a Taverner reserve and part-time Gunga Din, donned white waiter's jacket and served the visitors champagne in silver cups. While the Globetrotters reeled...
Like many of his business peers, Lord Rootes, the auto manufacturer, believes that the rejection by Europe's Six "was perhaps a good thing, because it has put Britain on her toes to look for expansion in world trading...
...week following Harold Macmillian's retirement, Lord Home was everyone's second choice. While R. A. B. Butler and Lord Hailsham split bitterly in quest of the Prime Ministership, Home waited patiently for a deadlock, hoping for the appointment as a compromise candidate. Both the deadlock and the appointment came, but the compromise was only illusory. In seeking to resolve the Butler-Hailsham conflict with Home, unflappable Mac inadvertently produced nothing short of a party revolt...
...party leader, Lord Home, now the commoner Sir Alec Douglass-Home, must restore party unity and erase the Tory image of effete aristocrats trying to preserve as much of the present as possible. To do this Sir Alec has retained Reginald Maudling as Chancellor of the Exchequer and appointed Edward Heath Secretary of State for Industry, Trade, and Regional Development. The youth and energy of these men will supposedly demonstrate that modern conservatism is the party's keynote. But the absence of Macleod and Powell will cast doubt on the progressive bent of the Conservatives until a solid performance...