Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history, while shifting the blame for the episode from Shelley to Harriet. In this ambitious task she found an ambiguous and wholly unexpected ally-a U.S. blackmailer known to the authorities as De Gibler. Among the intelligentsia he was known as "Major" George Gordon Byron. He claimed to be Lord Byron's son by a secret marriage...
Biographical Black Market. This pseudo-Byron turned up in England and tried to introduce himself to Lord Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh. He was shown the door. He had more success in peddling forged Byron letters. Through a London book seller, "Major" Byron's wife sold 47 forged Byron autographs to Publisher John Murray. Soon she was back with a swatch of "lost" Shelley letters. Soon the "Major" was in touch with Mary Shelley. Their biographical black marketing was sometimes disturbed by shrill cries of "Blackguard!" from Mary...
...also jampacked with minor characters, ranging from a sailor who takes his accordion to bed with him ("It takes up less room than a woman and sounds a hell of a lot better") to suave -Lord Kelvinston, who subsidizes the ballet and reeks of "inbred irony." You and I has amusing moments and non-stop action, but somehow it seems just to have been poured...
Sabotage and Damns. In Churchill's coalition Cabinet, Labor had acquiesced in the "chosen-instrument" policy of Tory Lord Swinton, then Civil Aviation Minister. He had recommended that three privately owned, State-backed companies operate 1) North American, British Commonwealth and Far Eastern services, 2) domestic and European routes, 3) routes to and from South America. Now, in junking this scheme, Swinton's successor, Lord Winster, apparently acted against his own better judgment, bowed to the party's Civil Aviation Committee. Last week, in the House of Lords, outraged Lord Swinton said that the new scheme...
...Dear Lord: In the battle that goes through life, I ask but a field that is fair, A chance that is equal with all in the strife, A courage to strive and to dare. And if I should win, let this be the code: With my faith and my honor held high. And if I should lose let me stand by the road And cheer as the winners...