Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manchester Guardian chided: "It is dangerous when economies . . . contract intellectual horizons. . . ." At week's end, BBC Chairman Lord Inman, in an apologetic letter to the London Times, "deplored the necessity," promised to restore the cultural program "at the earliest moment . . . allowed...
...Lord Waterlogged, a broad-as-Bevin parody of a Laborite, who "flips arahnd" laboring his "haitches" and belaboring the landed gentry: "The juke knocks 'is tea back and puts the saucer dahn, and 'e says, 'Sid,' 'e says, 'I'd like ter give this spa of yours the flippin' once over!' 'e says. Then ... she says, ''Ear! 'Ear!' she says. She's very fond of all this, this old-fashioned clobber, you know...
Like Daniel, the Federal Council of Churches put its faith in the Lord and walked right in with the lions...
...century a fine, fiery Irish-Cornish lady named Marie Connor Leighton wrote throbbing serial stories with titles like Fires of Love and Sealed Lips. A copy boy waited in the hallway of her house in St. John's Wood, London, to dash with the latest installments to Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail. The income kept her household going: six servants, four dogs, three children, a secretary and a husband...
Poet-Novelist George Meredith had been an early admirer, but had been dismissed because his beard was too bristly. Other admirers or callers came & went-an old judge who claimed that he had loved 100 women, no more, no less; the great Lord Northcliffe, who usually passed at least part of each visit relaxing prone on the floor. "There's absolutely nothing to be surprised about in someone choosing to lie on his stomach," Marie Leighton explained. "The sooner you children learn to accept any eccentricity as though it were a commonplace, the better equipped you will...