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Word: lording (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry L Mencken, 65, lord high lambaster of the '20s, had a visit from Columnist Ward Morehouse and impersonated his old self. Nostalgic excerpts from the interview: "People are in a state of imbecility. The country is a wreck. . . . The United Nations has no more chance than the Ku Klux Klan would have in the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 17, 1946 | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...setting of most of Pursuit is Alconleigh-a forbidding country mansion littered with terriers, halberds, "penholders made of tigers' teeth," a dusty collection of rare minerals, pet dormice, horses, French governesses, peasants and pheasants. Winter & summer, day began at 5 a.m., when Lord Alconleigh greeted the dawn with one his favorite records (Drake Is Sailing West, Lads, the "mad" scene from Lucia, or Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, sung by Galli-Curci), and strode on to the lawn cracking a Canadian stock whip. After breakfast, he gave his daughters a brief head start, then hunted them crosscountry with four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All in the Family | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...Ladies' Man. Social life was sparse at Alconleigh, because Lord Alconleigh declined all invitations ("perfectly good food at home," he always said). But every few years he took his daughters to the House of Lords, and left them in the gallery while he retired to a back bench for a snooze. Once, he awoke-to speak against admitting peeresses to the House, his objection being that the ladies would try to use the lords' washroom. "It's what they all thought, you know," said daughter Linda, "but he was the only one who dared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All in the Family | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...sold them to grocers at cost, then staged a spring-housecleaning sale in which the pails, filled with scrub brushes, clothespins and Colgate soap, were retailed as a "package" for 89?. Results were so spectacular that they caught the eye of Chicago's famed advertising millionaire, Albert Lasker (Lord & Thomas), who owned the Pepsodent Co., and a gloomy balance sheet. From a distance, Luckman looked like the man to fix this. Closeup, he looked entirely too young. Calmly Luckman lied to Lasker about his age: he said he was 30, instead of 26. Lasker hired him as salesmanager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Old Empire, New Prince | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

With no more fuss than buying a pencil, a new nationwide department store chain was started last week. Merchandiser Walter Hoving (rhymes with roving), who had resigned his $135,000-a-year job as president of Lord & Taylor five months ago, made a deal to buy Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, Inc. ("High Class but not High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: New Chain | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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