Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd at the gates. A few minutes later a black Humber approached along the Mall. The man in the rear seat was a stranger; a private detective, it turned out. But the faintly smiling, aristocratically fair features of the man beside the driver were familiar enough. "It's Lord Home!" came the amazed shouts. "Astonishing!" gasped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard...
Rusk for President. In selecting Home, Macmillan passed over three far more likely candidates: R. A. Butler, 60, deputy to Britain's last three Conservative Prime Ministers, rebuilder of Tory Party fortunes and everlasting heir apparent to the No. 1 post; Lord Hailsham, 56, the grandiloquent Minister for Science, who gaudily flipped his coronet into the ring, emotionally promising to renounce his title to become Quintin Hogg, M.P., in hopes of becoming P.M.; and Reginald Maudling, 46, the darling of the Conservative backbenches and brainy Chancellor of the Exchequer. An exact U.S. parallel of what Macmillan did would...
...John Profumo, Great Britain's Secretary of State for War, and place all four on the luxurious Cliveden Estate of Lord Astor one sultry summer evening...
...costume, throw it on the bank, and bathed naked.....Soon afterwards (the rest of the party) came to watch the bathing...Christine rushed to get her swimming costume. Stephen Ward threw it to one side so Christine could not get it and Christine seized a towel to hide herself. Lord Astor and Mr. Profume arrived at this moment and it was all treated as a place of fun, nothing indecent...
Sometimes it has taken an imaginative outsider to see the U.S. plain. There were De Tocqueville and Lord Bryce, and in this century the Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal...