Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Distinguished Cadavers. This electoral El Alamein, which brought British socialists to power for the first time in 14 years, strewed Britain with distinguished political corpses. Among the Conservative cadavers were: First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken; Secretary of State for India, Leopold S. Amery; Sir James Grigg, Secretary for War; Harold Macmillan, Secretary for Air; Sir Donald Somervell, Home Secretary; Ernest Brown, Minister of Aircraft Production; Richard K. Law, Minister of Education; Churchill's son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, Minister of Works; Churchill's son, Major Randolph Churchill...
...Debt. Thirty years before, Winston Churchill, made the scapegoat for the bungling of his Gallipoli expedition plan, had been heaved out of the Admiralty. In the darkest hour of his defeat he received an unexpected visit from a caustic critic. Lord Kitchener. Said "K. of K."; "There's one thing they can't take away from you-the Fleet was ready...
...could come & go, but was this pretty, vivacious, 32-year-old woman about to rewrite a chapter of British news paper history? Her fondest hope had be come common knowledge: to spur her 47-year-old husband's Daily Mail back into the all but lost struggle with Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, and win the top in the mass circulation field...
Right & Left. When she was the wife of Lord Shane O'Neill, she would scarcely have been interested. She was busy making the rounds of English country houses, romping on the Riviera, sampling the Paris styles and setting a few herself. Ann O'Neill had a mind of her own, and sometimes it got her into trouble. "I thrive," she told friends, "on my antagonisms...
...also induced Lord Rothermere to tilt his nose a little more toward the grindstone. After his father's death in 1940 he began showing up at Northcliffe House at 10 in the morning, stayed till after 6 at night. The policy of the Daily Mail, which had been friendly to fascism in his father's time, supported the anti-fascist war, at times seemed hostile to the U.S., wobbled along apparently undecided whether to go right or left...