Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S excellent portrait of Lord Home clearly indicated that, far from having scraped the bottom of the barrel, Britain's Tories have reached into the top of the top drawer for a leader who seems to be a sparkling blend of Benjamin Disraeli and Adlai Stevenson...
...British do not appreciate Lord Home, would it be possible to have him run for President of the U.S.? Our aristocracy at present available to that public office has not managed to develop Home's strength of character, and I am in a quandary as to which of the three poor bets currently available would do the least harm to our future...
...royalty, then the duchess was the mother-in-law of the Establishment. At her death, she left 162 descendants. Today they include, aside from Lady Macmillan and Sir Alec, the Duke of Devonshire, Under Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and brother-in-law of the late Kathleen Kennedy; Lord Lansdown, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs; the half-Vanderbilt Duke of Marlborough; and the Duchess of Gloucester, aunt of the Queen...
...spreading overseas. Sperry & Hutchinson, oldest and biggest of the stamp companies (40% of the market), last week began handing out its stamps in Britain-not the usual S. & H. green stamps, but pink ones because a local stamp rival called Green Shield got there first. In violent opposition, Lord Sainsbury, boss of the big Sainsbury's grocery chain, is preparing to do bitter battle against the gum-backed invaders. In the first skirmish he cut the price of bread, but his chances of holding out are slim. In the U.S. even the mighty A. & P. buckled under after years...
...cannot resist biting the hand that feeds him," the London Observer once wrote. "There is scarcely a Press lord in Fleet Street who has not a finger or two missing to prove it." In 1936, five years after setting foot on Fleet Street, Journalist Churchill quit two papers at once-the Daily Mail and the Sunday Dispatch-because both refused to print one of his contributions. By nature mettlesome, he did not spare even his employers; he wrote of the "rivers of pornography" flowing from Fleet Street, attacked publishers as easily as Prime Ministers. When Fleet Street hit back, Churchill...