Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clumsy review entitled Between Ourselves, due to open in London's West End next week, ran into censorship trouble with the Lord Chamberlain for lampooning those Laborites (including Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin) who occasionally drop...
...Lord Chamberlain's office, headed by Old Etonian Lord Clarendon, objected to the last two lines, insisted on an innocuous substitution...
...press descended on the Lord Chamberlain with whoops of joy. Said the London Daily Mirror's leader-writer: "What is clearly missing at the Lord Chamberlain's office is a share of that sense of humour which is Britain's priceless national possession. . . . Abolish the comedian, the cartoonist (and even the leader-writer) and there would soon be an Act of Parliament to restore them...
Claude Soman, producer of Between Ourselves, thought he understood the Lord Chamberlain's objection. Said Soman: "Apparently they don't mind what we say about the Government so long as we don't infer [sic] the Labor Government are not educated...
Almost silent, on both sides of the water, were the essayists and belles-lettrists: Lord David Cecil's monograph, Thomas Hardy, was intelligent and informative, but not in a class with Cecil's The Young Melbourne. Two books by George Orwell-Animal Farm, a penetrating satire on Soviet dictatorship, and Dickens, Dali and Others, a collection of essays-introduced many Americans to a vigorous British critic who observes life and literature with an eye that is usually more sharp than bloodshot...