Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called by Professor William Y. Elliott "the most powerful philosopher of democracy today." Lord Lindsay led a movement to reverse the aristocratic tendencies of Balliol and to make the college "marked only by an aristocracy of intellect...
Since becoming Master of Balliol College, Oxford University, in 1924, Lord Lindsay has been active in turning the interest of young British scholars from the problems of the Empire to social problems, a contributing factor to the rise of the Labor Party to power, since Balliol, more than any other college in England, has been sending men to the top posts in the government from the time of the Victorian...
Simon Elwes did not realize it but a seed had been planted in him. At the time, however, he all but forgot the experience. "The world of the flesh and the devil," he says, "took me back." In that world he prospered. He married a daughter of Lord Rennel of Rodd, fathered three sons. In London's Mayfair and on Manhattan's Park Avenue he established himself as a stylish portraitist. During World War II, Elwes served as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Hussars. Then last year, suddenly, blood clotted on his brain, paralyzing the right half...
...Britain he has enlisted such figures as the Duke of Norfolk, Britain's ranking Roman Catholic layman, the young, lovely, devoutly Catholic Marchioness of Lothian; Novelist Evelyn Waugh; Lord Lovat of Commando fame; and many others. From the U.S., Cardinal Spellman sent Elwes an enthusiastic letter and his personal check for $500. In London last fortnight, Elwes saw former Belgian Ambassador Hugh Gibson, who may head the U.S. drive for funds...
...week's end, Msgr. Joseph Hurley, acting apostolic nuncio to Belgrade, rushed back to his post after consultations in Rome. The Tito Government prepared for an elaborate show trial. Said the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "We think of [Stepanic] like his Lord, accused of having deceived the people, of not having yielded unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, for having said that he was able to destroy in three days the temple of Titus. . . ." For Titus, the Vatican paper, which is written in Italian, used the Italian word, Tito...