Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today it is Lord Rothermere who shouts as with a million tongues the praises of Premier Mussolini and Premier Poincaré and keeps the Red bogey of Bolshevism dangling horrifically before English eyes. By owning some ?400,000 worth of strategically placed shares, he controls ?24,000,000 worth of newspaper enterprises. With the only man who might become his rival, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, he has a quiet gentlemanly agreement whereby they jointly own, but Baron Beaverbrook controls, the Daily Express and Evening Standard. Third of the London news titans whose newspapers are really national is Sir William...
...Times, Lord Northeliffe achieved his greatest ambition by purchasing it in 1908. However to his eternal credit Major John Jacob Astor, brother of Viscount Astor, purchased the Times from the Northcliffe estate (1922), restored ita long and honorable independence, and has transferred its control in perpetuity to a board on which it is hopei will always sit the Lord Chief Justice and the Governor of the Bank of England...
Harmsworth, nephew of the late Lord Northcliffe (newspapers); to Dorothy Alexander Heinlein, of Bridgeport, Ohio...
This Was a Man. Precocious Noel Coward, incessant tosser-off of suavely sexual plays, tossed this one off a bit too carelessly. Though the Lord Chamberlain suppressed the piece in London, Broadway showed signs last week of yawning at one more husband world-wearily indifferent to his cuckoldom...
...18th Century British portraits-a Gainsborough ("The Hon. Mrs. Henry Fane"), a Reynolds ("The Hon. Lavinia Bingham, Countess Spencer"), a Romney ("Lady Hamilton"). Which Lady Hamilton portrait by Romney was not specified (Romney did 30 of this his onetime mistress, who left him to occupy the same position with Lord Nelson) ; but the U. S., some day to be public sharer in the Huntington collection, was reassured to hear that all three portraits are "outstanding examples of the best work of their masters"-and cost between $500,000 and $1,000,000. By their acquisition, Maecenas Huntington now owns...