Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement by all Anglican bishops setting forth the four points of Christian unity: 1) the Bible; 2) the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed; 3) the two sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper; 4) the historic episcopate...
After his eldest son was killed in World War I, Lord Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth), late proprietor of the sensational London Daily Mail, endowed a chair at Oxford. Its purpose: to acquaint Britons with their recent American allies. Since 1922 such sober, unsensational U.S. historians as Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison, Princeton's Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and Columbia's Allan Nevins have occupied the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship of American History. Last week a 29-year-old, crewcut veteran of World War II sailed for England to become the new Harmsworth professor, as well as the first...
...First Lord knows whom to summon in such a scandalous and unBritish emergency. "You're ready for active service now, Hornblower?" "Yes, my Lord," replies gallant Commodore Sir Horatio Hornblower...
...LORD HORNBLOWER (322 pp.)-C. S. Forester-Liftie, Brown...
H.M.S. Flame, 18-gun brig, lies hove to near the French coast. "Insolent rascals, mutinous dogs," splutters the First Lord of the Admiralty, nursing his gout in Whitehall. Flame's crew have just sent word to London that they are tired of floggings and bad food. Unless their demands are met, they will desert to Napoleon...