Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submitted to the respective churches 'for study'. ... A minority of the Episcopal members of this joint commission has issued a statement opposing even so tentative a commitment to the proposed plan of union, on the alleged ground that it 'radically distorts the religion of our Lord' and is equivalent to the 'giving of a blank check in regard to Christian faith and practice' [TIME, July...
Says plump, bespectacled Mrs. Shuttle, wife of Cerne Abbas' stationer: "He's a real nice gentleman." She describes how Lord Digby stands behind the van bellowing cheerfully: "What do you want this morning, Mrs. Shuttle?" Mrs. Shuttle gives her order and hands over her shopping basket: "Then, like as not, he'll say, 'Now don't you worry, Mrs. Shuttle, I'll take it for you,' and he marches through the shop into the kitchen with the goods. Now there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord...
HARDY THE NOVELIST-Lord David Cecil-Bobbs-Merrill...
...Have you ever noticed, when looking at a photographic group taken 20 years ago," asks Lord David Cecil, "that it is impossible to judge which women are well dressed, for all the clothes look equally grotesque; whereas in a group taken 40 years ago some were clearly charming? The same phenomenon is true of literature. . . . A certain time must elapse before we can easily separate what is permanent in an artist's work from what is temporary...
...Lord David feels that for Thomas Hardy this time has now safely elapsed-"the world he lived in is as much a part of vanished history as the world of Queen Elizabeth." Hardy the Novelist is the first important study in its field since Edmund Blunden's Thomas Hardy. Composed of a series of lectures delivered at Oxford (Lord David, 44, youngest son of the Marquess of Salisbury, is a Fellow of New College), it lacks the polished style and brilliance that made Author Cecil's The Young Melbourne (TIME, Aug. 28, 1939) one of the finest biographies...