Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Highness, the Duke of York. Presently a small pink bundle was brought to them. Sir William peered. The bundle, third in line of succession to a royal throne, yawned magnificently. Satisfied of the infant's royalty, Sir William hurried off to break the news to the Lord Mayor of London...
...over any heiress has never left Lilibet. Since she was first able to blow a kiss from her cradle, Britain's cooing matchmakers have been at work on her. When the Princess took to nightclubbing, the speculation, abetted by trigger-fingered columnists, increased tenfold, until any sleek young lord seen dancing twice with Lilibet was a marked man. Since she seldom sits one out (she is a gifted and tireless dancer), the field was enormous. But during the last year it has narrowed to a single contestant: a well-scrubbed, curly-haired lieutenant of the Royal Navy...
Prince Philip of Greece is the nephew of Elizabeth's cousin Lord Mountbatten, with whom he has lived all his life. Recently he renounced all rights to his Greek heritage and applied for British citizenship. Philip's picture sits prominently on Elizabeth's desk. From Africa she writes him several letters a week. He is such a family fixture at the Palace that Queen Elizabeth has sometimes had to rebuke him for ordering the servants about too much. King George can approve his daughter's marriage only with the consent of the Cabinet...
...Mountbattens mounted the steps. At the top stood the Viceroy and Vicereine, Lord and Lady Wavell. Said Wavell: "Did you have a good trip?" Said Mountbatten: "Very smooth." Next day, Wavell was piped and saluted out. With no letdown in ceremony, Mountbatten took the oath as Viceroy, sat for a moment on the red brocade and gold throne...
...that in good looks "suburban girls lead city girls," and have "better developed breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden's 88-year-old King Gustaf moved down to the French Riviera for the sun & fun. Arid in Britain's House of Lords, Christopher Maude Chavasse, one-legged Lord Bishop of Rochester, plugged for a ban on liquor in workers' restaurants on the ground that young couples "do not want their courting in public houses ; they want the ordinary tea shop." Lord Latham retorted that he was "not convinced that...