Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, and that the prosecution did not call them because it did not wish to embarrass the Establishment. In general, serious observers fear that British courts are assuming, or are being forced to assume, too much authority as an arm of government, and recall the dictum of the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker, during the trial of scandal-mongering journalists after the Vassall spy case, that "the citizen's highest duty is to the state...
Never the Same Again. The doubts raised by the Ward case go beyond such specific matters as the function of the judiciary. The wide-ranging inquiry being conducted by Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls,* keeps feeding new rumors into the stream of London gossip, including the suspicion that two more Cabinet members besides War Minister Jack Profumo were involved in the case or its fringes. Says Denning: "It is impossible to draw a hard and fast line between crime...
...sense of outrage does remain. Profumo, for example, would not dare to enter one of the St. James clubs, or to appear at the Goodwood races (he fled to Scotland and his sister's place during the recent bank holiday). Lord Astor continues to entertain, but, says one Establishmentarian, "people resent him for mixing his family and his circle with his peccadilloes...
Also on display: Farmer Miles Blair, 53, who spends most of his time writing letters urging closer ties with Portugal and South Africa and none at all with the U.S.; and David ("Screaming Lord") Sutch, a 22-year-old plumber's helper turned rock-'n'-roll singer, who called for a better deal for Britain's teenagers, though by law they are not permitted to vote for him, and affrighted Stratford-upon-Avon by campaigning in top hat and tails. "What," he asked disdainfully, "has Hamlet done for you lately...
...Beacon Street. A graduate of Milton Academy and Harvard (magna), Coles got his M.D. at Columbia and trained at proper Boston hospitals, from Children's to McLean to Massachusetts General. He even married a Hallowell-a word that some Boston tots think is part of the Lord's Prayer: "Hallowell be thy name...