Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the philosophy of the 19th century British Army pervades Harvard. Lord Kitchener used to say that "we lose every battle but the last." Maybe Harvard plays that way, too, and runs through gallant Balaklava and ineffective Ladysmiths to win all glory in the Yale Game...
Died. John Robert Clynes, 80, pioneer in the British Labor Party who rose from millhand to cabinet rank (Lord Privy Seal, 1924; Home Secretary, 1929-31) in his country's first two Labor governments (he was the first to introduce rationing, in 1918); in London. In virtual obscurity by 1947, Clynes was forced to admit publicly that he was almost destitute...
However, more than a $1,000,000 of the endowment is invested in a group of liquor companies that make such products as Ruppert's Beer, Four Roses, Lord Calvert, and Old Grand...
...race for president of the Class of 1953 are Joyce Bisbee, Isabel Fulton, Eleanor Levine, Elinor Meiss, Martha McCabe, and Dee Waelder. Vice-presidential candidates are Nancy Barrow, Kitty Barbehenn, Wendy Cowie, Diana Crane, Sally Lord, and Holly Walker...
Married. Michael Foot, 36, pamphleteering Laborite M.P., onetime editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard, now editor (with Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's wife, M. P. Jenny Lee) of the Weekly Tribune (circ. 18,-ooo); and Jill Craigie, 35, author-director-producer of documentary films (The Way We Live); in London...