Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Color Scheme. In Worcester, Mass., Henry Moisan sued Beautician Bruce Lord for $25,000, claimed that he had been held prisoner, guarded by a war-trained Great Dane, had his hair dyed...
...Lord Lindsay, introduced by Professor William Y. Elliott, emphasized that he believes in Russia's sincerity in her conception of democracy...
Peering over his horn-rimmed spectacles at a packed-in New Lecture Hall audience last evening, Lord Lindsay of Birker, Master of Oxford's Balliol College and Labor Party peer, said Russia on the one hand and America and England on the other are not, as some think, in utter disagreement; for on one point, they meet on common ground: each thinks the other's conception of democracy is "preposterous nonsense...
Which is right? Neither, said Lord Lindsay, or both. The ambiguity of "democracy" is of long standing, he said; and the difference in meaning attached to the word by Russia and by the western democracies is the heart of what he called the "profound and very important" cleavage between the countries today...
Attacking Communism, he criticized Marx for failure to recognize the nature of modern science's fallibility. It is very difficult, said Lord Lindsay, to deal with people who hold what they believe to be absolute, scientific truths, with no room for qualifying opinion...