Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, who has received shamrocks from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, a painting from the Lord Mayor of Cork and Holland gin from the Burgomaster of Amsterdam, was still taking it-this time a dozen Banbury buns from the Lord Mayor of Banbury...
Wilmoth Houdini (real name: Edgar Leon St.-Clair) calls himself King of Calypso, a title sought after by rivals with such imposing titles as The Lord Executor, The Lord Invader (Rum & Coca-Cola), The Senior Inventor, King Radio, Attila the Hun, The Growler and The Caresser. All of them are old hands at dashing off musical comments on world affairs and local scandals, in Latin-African rhythms as insistent as radio commercials, and in the oddly distorted British accent of the British West Indies...
Houdini's method is to rile his opponent by musical insults. He won his first war by being so insulting to two opponents at the same time that, after 45 minutes, they stopped to congratulate him on his virtuosity. His toughest battle was against the old Master, Lord Executor, until he found a fatal weakness to sing about: Executor's big toe had just popped out of his canvas sneaker...
Married. Group Captain the Hon. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, D.S.O., D.F.C., 36, Member of Parliament, elder son of newspaper publisher Lord Beaverbrook; and Mrs. Jane Lindsay, 26, granddaughter of the Duke of Abercorn, onetime Governor of Northern Ireland; both for the second time; in London...
They ran him as a dummy to split the cocklebur vote for the opposing faction; but Willie didn't know this. Willie thought the Lord was calling him to save the state and so did his wife, Lucy, who had been a schoolteacher and didn't favor drinking. Willie was pure and believed in his backers. He believed in the people, who repaid his faith by dozing through his well-reasoned speeches. Then Willie found out that he had been a sap and a sucker...