Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander, 60. He had been First Lord twice before, once under Churchill. Sound, jovial and popular, First Lord Alexander likes to bang on the piano while he sings Clementine and Little Brown Jug, could also be counted on to bang through the war against Japan...
...most unusual translation was that of Leading Stoker Walter Edwards, formerly of the Royal Navy, to Civil Lord of the Admiralty. There he will sit among the senior admirals. Before he was elected to Parliament (1942), Stoker Edwards was on the dangerous Murmansk convoy run. Next time he boards a battleship officially, he will be piped over the side, pass between saluting side boys...
Night & Day. Eight months after Lieut. Colonel Lord O'Neill died leading a regiment in Italy, his widow became Lady Rothermere. Now Fleet Street generally agrees that the Daily Mail is being run by two boards of directors-the official daytime board at Northcliffe House and an advisory nighttime board at the Dorchester. Politicians consider the Dorchester directorate important enough to court...
...final analysis her dream depends on Lord Rothermere's willingness to hustle. Shy (except when making a speech), he has never shown any real interest in the routine details of the business, never covered a fire or managed a department. He can write well when he wants to, has occasionally done first-rate editorials. But mostly he has just sat on the top dais, expressing his likes & dislikes...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express opened the bidding at ?500, dropped out at ?3,000; Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, which finally got it for ?18,000 ($72,000), sold ?16,000 worth of reprint rights to other papers...