Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister to Tracy Lord (Miss Hepburn). Lenor Lonergan proves that not all child prodigies are in Hollywood. Borrowed from the Mercury Theatre, Joseph Cotten proves that some good guys can be found among the rich. Also outstanding are Shirley Booth, as the sharp, brittle-tongued photographer and Van Heflen as the liberal, wealth-bating and Luce hating reporter...
...Germany last week continued to build more & more airplanes, Britain continued to dig deeper & deeper holes in which, to hide from them. > Lord Privy Seal Sir John Anderson, who actually is British Minister for Civilian Defense, announced in the House of Commons last week what the well-dressed British baby will wear in the next war. Sir John said the Government has ordered 1,400,000 little gas helmets which will fit over the babies' heads and shoulders and will be strapped on over their chests. Attached will be small air pumps through which mothers-in gas masks...
...Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam. . . ." ("I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope.") There was a cheer. He continued, spacing his words dramatically: "Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum dominum meum. . . ." ("My most eminent and most reverend lord. . . .") "Dominum Cardinalem Eugenium. ..." A roar rose from the Square, before the Cardinal could conclude: . . . "Pacelli, qui sibi nomen imposuit Pium Duodecimum." At this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor...
...idealistic Scientist J. S. Haldane, nephew of the encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane who became Britain's Lord Chancellor, John B. S. Haldane was born 46 years ago in Scotland. Growing up in an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and freedom, he did not find Einstein unintelligible or Freud shocking. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served in France and Mesopotamia during the War, was twice wounded, became a captain. He said he enjoyed shooting Germans. Nowadays he is known as an authority on poison gas, is an Air Raid Precautions expert...
...Great Hearst. Hearst's career spanned exactly half a century, and more than any other career in history it proved the power and privileges of a free press. No other press lord ever wielded his power with less sense of responsibility; no other press ever matched the Hearst press for flamboyance, perversity and incitement of mass hysteria. Hearst never believed in anything much, not even Hearst, and his appeal was not to men's minds but to those infantile emotions which he never conquered in himself: arrogance, hatred, frustration, fear. But while Hearst dragged his readers vicariously through...