Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roundheads & Rome. The ticking began almost at birth. The son of Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan and grandnephew of Lord Macaulay, young George grew up in a rambling mansion in Shakespeare's Warwickshire. He was a "queer, happy little boy," who would play soldier ("Napoleonic period") by the hour, and could recite the Lays of Ancient Rome by heart. At school, he was happiest arguing the Roundhead cause against his pro-Cavalier school chums, or wandering about some nearby battlefield with his history-minded house master ("O boy, you oughtn't to have a hot bath twice...
...Cambridge, it was much the same. There were trips to old abbeys and castles that "haunted me like a passion." There was flashing talk in the common rooms, deep conversations with young Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead; and there were frequent visits to that master historian, Lord Acton...
...passengers," he said. "When I am offered money, I suggest that they put the amount of the fare into the church collection box." Gray pooh-poohs the financial sacrifice on his part. "In the early morning, business is bad," he explains. "I just wanted to thank the Lord for my good fortune...
...Wales, Sam Higginbottom was sure that the last thing he wanted to be was a missionary ("Not for Sam Higginbottom-no, sir"). All the same, he read his Bible carefully and decided that "the attitude of Jesus was strict and uncompromising. He would not accept the position of being Lord of half my life-He wanted it all . . . I argued and tried to think of some way to get around this demand, but whichever way I turned, there He was . . . At long last I concluded that there would be no peace of mind for me unless I yielded...
...decided last spring that Knowsley Hall, the old family seat, would have to pay its own way, the Earl of Derby cheerfully counted up $22,000 in public admissions over the summer to the 400-year-old showplace in Lancashire (Price scale: "adults, 50?; children, 25?). "Next year," promised Lord Derby, "I shall reduce the charge for children...