Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preechers and some of the old girls" are cutting up just like a sausage machine in some sections of the STATE-just because they haven't yet received word from LORD SIMMONS to commence eating the pie that he (SIMMONS) has been spitting tobacco juice in-for some considerable time past...
These polished words of Lord Birkenhead-typical of his youth as a smart lawyer named F. E. Smith-were flatly contradicted by Dictator Mussolini thus: "The oft-repeated platitude that somewhere in every strong man there is the influence of a woman, is a woven fancy. That there is a feminine 'power behind the throne' is a flimsy tissue of the imagination. No woman ever has been the dominant influence in a strong man's life...
Once the Other Grandmama's eldest brother was called King, Kaiser and All Highest War Lord. She has been wife to one king and mother to two; but now, when she rides out in Florence, no one cries, "Look! There goes the Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece. The Kaiser's sister...
...Pinero wrote a play called Trelawny of the Wells. Its wit was distinctly of the lavender variety. Its entrances and exits were deftly manipulated amid fluffy excitement. A year ago, George C. Tyler revived it on a Manhattan stage with 83-year-old Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, John Drew, Pauline Lord. People loved it, forgot about it and flocked to the new musical comedies. Now it has been made into a film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and called The Actress. The director, Sidney Franklin, has handled it tenderly. Norma Shearer,* though not the ideal Actress Rose Trelawny who sneezed lovingly...
Thinly disguised under the synonym Ottercove, Lord Newspaper-Magnate Beaverbrook appears in Gerhardi's new book, avowedly "pure and unmixed, except for the obvious extravaganza." But Beaver-brook's life has been so rich in extravaganza that the fictitious is not always obvious. Ottercove rides in a Winged Chariot, a comfortable limousine that darts down London streets or rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries...