Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After breakfast his Lordship, wearing his habitual thick brown tweeds and checked cap on his bald head, steps into the stone-paved yard of his rambling Tudor manor house. Standing by the dairy is a neat, navy blue, electric van, loaded with Guernsey milk from Lord Digby's 30 pedigreed cows, pastured on his 200-acre farm. Accompanied by his helper, aged Edwin White, Lord Digby hops in and sets off to deliver milk to the inhabitants of Cerne Abbas...
...housewives were somewhat embarrassed. Today the van's super service and Baron Digby's affable, businesslike manner have ended all that. Not only does he supply rich milk (at the regulation fivepence a pint), but the van is loaded with vegetables, flowers and fresh fruit, grown on Lord Digby's larger estate at Minterne, a mile away...
...Lord." Harry Truman's energetic, new 38-year-old Secretary of the Interior Julius A. ("Cap") Krug climbed into a C-54 fortnight ago, set out to get a close-up look at the land none of his predecessors had understood. At his first stop, Fairbanks, the modern hub of the old, interior gold fields, he became aware of the Territory's attitude toward bureaucratic Government. He was greeted by a sign which read: "Welcome Lord of Alaska." But Alaskans soon began to change their tune...
Said the Christian Advocate, official weekly publication of the Methodist Church: "If the disciples of the Lord Jesus cannot work together for the world's salvation, then they dare not exhort the politicians to work together toward the same...
...Wodehouse (now living in Paris) is not absolutely in midseason form, but perky as ever. Joy in the Morning is a chatty potboiler in the tradition of most Wodehouse works. Its setting is the familiar English hamlet of Steeple Bumpleigh; its characters include such Wodehouse fixtures as crocodile-toothed Lord Worplesdon ("he had got that way through presiding at board meetings"), twelve-year-old Hon. Edwin Worplesdon (a Boy Scout "who makes you feel that what this country wants is somebody like King Herod"), "Boko" Fittleworth ("a cross between a comedy juggler and a parrot that has been dragged through...