Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long, a white-haired, bespectacled man, also decided that the Lord had slyly been training him as an oracle. Born in Turkey, he had been a missionary in Syria, Egypt and Palestine, had come to Pasadena in 1932 to found a minuscule cult called Remnant of the Church of God. But despite these qualifications and the vision, sinners paid no particular attention to his prophecy-at least, until last...
...Twice the London Times telephoned him to ask if dissolution was still certain. From New Brunswick, Canada, one Ernest W. Cannon called up to protest over 4,000 miles of wire that his wife had read Long's prophecy and had refused to go on pickling cauliflower. "The Lord," said Long coldly, "cannot wait until worldly tasks like pickling are finished." When Cannon's wife got on the phone, the prophet said: "Pray at noon, 2 and 8 p.m., and ready yourself...
Knowing that some Americans would find these comparisons beside the point, British Ambassador Lord Halifax took another line. He said that Britain's 47 million people could not live unless they exported to pay for imports and they could not export in prewar quantities unless the U.S. lent them money for ships and machines. Without a loan, Britain would struggle along as best she could, trading within her own sterling area. Result: U.S. and world trade would suffer...
Peter Aitken, 34. auto-racing second son of Lord Beaverbrook (and brother of bemedalled R.A.F. veteran Max Aitken) was fined $42 and given a two months' jail sentence for drunken driving in London...
...Lord God, when Thou givest to Thy. servants to endeavour any great matter, grant us also to know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same until it be thoroughly finished which yieldeth the true glory...