Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognized anyone. "Yes," she said, "William Spud Howell." Spud just smiled. But when Amy told how Big Duck got shot she went to pieces. She yelled, "Oh Lawdy, Oh murder. They killed him." She got down on her knees, screamed, "I see 'em. I see 'em. Oh Lord-why did they murder him?" A lot of people in the audience couldn't help laughing...
...Parton quit TIME last year, organized the Los Angeles Independent Publishing Co., raised a stake from 55 investors,* and bought a chain of seven twice-a-week giveaways in the rich Santa Monica Bay area of Los Angeles. Then he hired some high-priced talent, including ex-Hearstling Merrill Lord as general manager and the Los Angeles News's Charles Judson as executive editor, to help turn his giveaways (circ. 42,000) into good newspapers...
...Unitarians honestly disbelieve and deny the facts and truths about the Lord Jesus Christ declared in the Christian Creed. At every service in an Episcopal Church that creed is solemnly recited before the altar by the clergy and the people together. Is it consistent for one who represents definite denial of that creed to be asked to take official part in a service which is based wholly upon belief in it? Would it be consistent to ask an earnest and convinced Marxian Communist to take official part in a meeting held to pay honor to the Constitution of the United...
...more recent years, the royal family has not shared Victoria's suspicion of homeopathy: twelve years ago the top-drawer job of physician to the King went to genial Homeopath Sir John Weir. Weir, a white-haired, white-mustached master of the jolly bedside manner, shares honors with Lord Horder and Sir Maurice Cassidy. But in practice, Weir has been the man who actually looked after George VI and his family...
...several) must have felt that another musical with a New York theme was about due, a month or so having lapsed since the last one. Consequently there are a couple of songs in which the chorus shouts loud hosannas for such things as Rockefeller Center, the subway system, Lord & Taylor (remember the dear dead days when everybody was singing songs about Macy's?), and, of course, Fifth Avenue. "From Dubuque to Westminster Abbey they want the Fifth Avenue Look," they chant. And there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this big town with...