Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they thought they had found one. Conservative Headquarters named as new party chairman popular, brilliant ex-Food Minister Lord Woolton, who before the war was not a member of any party...
After 14 weeks India still had a government that did not represent India's major political groups. The day the mission left, Viceroy Lord Wavell appointed a temporary "caretaker" government of eight officials of the Raj (seven had been knighted in His Majesty's service, only two were Indians). The biggest step forward had been agreement by both the Congress Party and Moslem League to accept Britain's long-term plan for an Indian constitution providing a central federal government (to please the Congress Party) with strong local autonomy (to please the Moslem League). Election of delegates...
...George came in from Verdella Tuesday evening. He was drunk as a lord and weaving about in the east part of town in his truck. . . . On his arrival [at the jail] he greeted Sheriff Bassett with the remark, 'I'm one drunk son of a bitch.' And there wasn't any doubt about the veracity of the first three words of this statement...
...Floridians woke up to the fact that the cream of their state's 140 weeklies had been quietly bought up by one man. The owner of the lengthening chain, whose southern links now include 14 weeklies, seven dailies and four radio stations, is a little-known U.S. press lord named John Holliday Perry. His Western Newspaper Union is now the world's biggest newspaper syndicate. He is also the man most responsible for the creeping, canned mediocrity that is overtaking a good many of the nation's rural papers...
...series of fashionable schools and wound up, of course, at Eton. As he remembers them, they were all so horrible that he reviews the experience with "insuperable repugnance." He was highly unpopular with other boys, and, in turn, loathed both them and the masters. One of his contemporaries was Lord Digby's son, who frequently received a box of orchids from the family conservatory. Osbert sometimes got an orchid to wear in his buttonhole; he is "still grateful," he says, "for the magic with which these flowers temporarily touched so dreary an existence...