Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dives. The A's were on a ten-game winning streak (their longest since 1931) when they hustled out to play the powerhouse Yankees. Said one of Connie's coaches: "Lord knows what they'll do in a crucial series like this. They've never played in one before-never been important enough." The Yankees abruptly stopped their streak, 3-0. But next day, playing the Yanks again in a doubleheader, the A's bounced back. Outfielder Elmer Valo dived halfway into right-field stands like a circus acrobat to make a sensational catch...
...Iolanthe." The most important factor in the evening's work remains Martyn Green, who is offered by the opera precisely the proper balance of singing and "business." Instead of the constant mugging of Ko-Ko or the small opportunities of the part of Major General Stanley, Green as the Lord Chancellor in "Iolanthe" has "When you're Lying Awake," "Faint Heart Never Won," and "I said to Myself, Said I" to sing as well as some of his most entertaining business...
Said Mrs. Shelley, when she heard that she could keep her house: "My little soul is overjoyed. Wait till I get by myself. I'll tell the Lord of my thankfulness...
Died. Arthur Ault, 75, portly, plain-spoken editor of the Lamar, Mo., Democrat; of a heart ailment; in Lamar. He fattened his national reputation (TIME, July 8, 1946) with such unlarded local reporting as "George Phillips is back in the Barton County jail . . . drunk as a lord...
Great New Deal. The opening chapters read like dehydrated Dickens. Hyacinth, the young hero, is the son of a French prostitute and an English lord; the lord has been murdered and the prostitute imprisoned for life for the crime. The boy meets a group of anarchists and through them some socially conscious aristocrats...