Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that March day in 1867 when the British Parliament created a confederated Canada, Britain's Lord Carnarvon had cried: "We are laying the foundation of a great state-perhaps one which at a future date may even overshadow this country." That polite nothing was now a something which, in some senses, had already begun to come true...
...rough & ready rowdiness, is a country deeply endowed with moral sense. Its feelings about "decency" stem from deep roots in both its Anglo-Saxon and French traditions-traditions whose offshoots have blossomed into some unlovely flowers of puritanism and respectability. Canada's divorce laws are harsh. The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world. The liquor laws are repressive...
...Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, 62, the dapper, decisive Ulsterman who was Britain's Chief of Staff through the war's worst years. Current assignment: a 30,000-mile tour of British trouble spots...
...career woman, Dorothy Shaver professes to believe that every woman should marry eventually. But she prefers to remain wedded to her work, takes time out only for such things as the New Year's Egg Nog party for employes in Lord & Taylor's executive offices...
Last week, as retiring Walter Hoving prepared to undertake what he mysteriously described as "an amalgamation of department stores and other retail properties" outside New York, Lord & Taylor announced that plans would go forward for expansion inside the city limits. It will open ten branches in outlying metropolitan districts, a new uptown Fifth Avenue store, close to Rockefeller Center and Best & Co.'s new store. In carrying out this expansion, Dorothy Shaver will have the help of able Van Buren Sims, first vice president. What Dorothy Shaver's uptown store will look like, no outsider knows...