Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whitefish & Milk. Alighting at the Palace of Westminster, the King went into his robing room in the House of Lords, put on his crown and his ermine-trimmed, purple velvet robes; the Queen hooked the broad blue ribbon of the Garter over her white crinoline dress. Entering the chamber, they were preceded by heralds and court functionaries whose stiff tabards made them look like kings and jacks in a pack of cards. In all this splendor, stubby Herbert Morrison, in his black cutaway, stood out like the ace of spades. But Commoner Morrison, present in his capacity as Lord President...
Notre Dame's fancy football team, on a 24-game undefeated streak, worked out last week in the ballroom of the Lord Baltimore Hotel. With doors locked, visitors excluded, and street shoes on their feet, halfbacks feinted & faked under the crystal chandeliers. Coach Frank Leahy was giving his new U-formation (with two quarterbacks squatting just behind the center) a final tune-up. Leahy, the perfectionist, wanted to be sure...
Robert sailed for England and another apprenticeship, this time under Lord Rutherford and Sir J. J. Thomson at Cambridge University. Before he left, Bridgman told him: "You cannot be satisfied with just measuring up with other people. You can consider yourself a failure unless you stand out in front...
...dangerous doctrine. The care of the Church is most certainly our care, and to prove it, he cites Saint Paul (I Corinthians 12). Earth's emphasis on "what we cannot do" is really a temptation to Christians "to share the victory and the glory of the risen Lord" without undergoing the trials, perplexities and decisions -the "crucifixion of the self which is the scriptural presupposition of a new life...
...Strachey's amused, amusing manner, nothing of his skepticism and silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...