Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working delegate on the Atomic Energy Commission, gentle, saturnine Frederick H. Osborn, wasted no time on doubtful optimism. The 58-year-old geneticist and wartime major general (morale branch), who makes Britons at Lake Success think of Lord Halifax, was already on the record with an uncompromising verdict against the kind of control Gromyko proposed: "A fraud on the people of the world...
...great day arrived last week, the Mahdi's son, 63-year-old Sayed Sir Abdul Rahman el Mahdi Pasha, now the darling of the British because he opposes union of the Sudan with Egypt, was ready to reopen his father's tomb at Omdurman. In ruins since Lord Kitchener's army shattered it with artillery in the reoccupation of the Sudan in 1898, the tomb was rebuilt this year with British permission...
...London, Hollywood's Gloria Jean, ex-cinemoppet-turned-ingenue, fainted onstage as she was singing a lullaby. Responsible, she guessed, was "the unhappy business about my singing the Lord's Prayer." London critics, who considered the song (by Albert Hay Malotte) in bad taste, had vigorously lambasted her that morning. Unfortunate details noted by the Daily Express: she had dedicated the piece to "the people of Britain," and sung it "with the line about 'trespasses' changed to 'forgive us our debts...
...Poetry: Robert Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle...
...soon as churchgoing ears become educated enough to recognize irreligious music when they hear it, "pieces like the popular setting of The Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...