Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Butler, a grim rider in a black Daimler, was momentarily roused from introspection by the cheers of the crowd; Hailsham, reportedly the hardest-dying, refused to say anything about anything. They came and went, as the sun set and the TV lights rose, then came and went again. Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath went on BBC television to praise Home's "integrity, clarity, judgment and perseverance" and to hope "that all our colleagues will be able to serve with him." Selwyn Lloyd insisted "he will make an outstanding Prime Minister." Heading for home and bed just before midnight, Home...
...announcement that he was off to see the Queen, the quiet talk with Elizabeth in the Buckingham Palace audience chamber as sun softened the palace gardens and a military band played for the changing of the guard in the forecourt. Had he been able to form a government? Replied Lord Home: "Yes, I have, and I have kissed hands with the Queen on my appointment as Prime Minister...
...Lord Home's crest shows a salamander standing in fire. To his friends, it symbolizes his patient, outwardly phlegmatic disposition, not easily touched by the heat of emotion, danger or disaster. As the grim-faced stream of ministers came and went through the black door of No. 10 Downing Street, the watching crowds got no hint of crisis from Lord Home's broad, boyish grin and jaunty stride. The Prime Minister-designate seemed serenely untouched by the jealousies and conspiracies of his riven party. As one Tory said not long ago: "He's never scared. He just...
...choice of a successor was hailed with unmixed joy. To the 2,000-odd people of Coldstream, a Berwickshire border village flanked by 5,000 acres of Home's ancestral lands, the news of the laird's new job stirred the greatest celebration since the 6th Lord became the 1st Earl in 1605. The clan once foregathered also at Douglas Castle, or "Castle Dangerous," as Sir Walter Scott called it, on their Lanarkshire estate, but in 1937, when the 13th Earl discovered a coalmine beneath his living room, he tore down the 176-year-old castle...
...some extent, the fears about Home reflect Britain's long and jealous struggle to establish political democracy and protect it from the monarchy and nobility. The last peer to form a government in Britain was Lord Salisbury in 1895. Since then, in deference to the unwritten rule that the Prime Minister cannot sit in the "Other Place," as M.P.s call the House of Lords, party leaders twice have reluctantly passed over titled favorites for second-running commoners. In 1923 Stanley Baldwin wrested the job from Lord Curzon; in 1940 Winston Churchill edged out Lord Halifax. Today the old rule...