Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blossom & Shadow. Author Moore allows that Brensham village has its troubles. When the frost strikes the blossoms of its innumerable orchards, the village goes half-penniless the remainder of the year. When rich Londoners buy up and "develop" the mad lord's crazy, romantic acres, poachers and gypsies foresee the doom of carefree living, and the black shadow of standardized modern life falls across Brensham's thatched roofs. But such events are like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham...
Sacred & Profane. Mad Lord Orris welcomes poachers and bill collectors with an exquisite bow and regrets profusely that he has only rabbits to offer them. Even the puritanical mailman, who writes religious poetry, gets spring fever so badly that he puts his pen to a theme which he considers "profane"-his wife...
...premature baldness under a mop of false hair. For years afterward Britain's professional men continued to wear wigs that marked them as doctor, lawyer, soldier or clergyman. Today, Britain's judges and lawyers, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the clerks of Parliament and the Lord Chancellor all wear wigs on duty...
When Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A. (ret.) arrived in Buenos Aires 18 months ago to drum up some business for his new construction firm, he heard businessmen denouncing President Perón's new five-year plan for industrialization. "Exactly the kind of talk I heard in the first Roosevelt administration," said West Pointer Lord, who had worked for the New Deal (Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project) long before he worked for Eisenhower in the E.T.O. service of supply. Perón, told what Lord had said, sent for him. Soon he was head of the President...
Last week, Engineer Lord was back in his Manhattan offices again. Thanks to him, Perón now understood many of the engineering and economic problems facing the five-year plan, was aware that it would take far more than five years to industrialize farm-minded Argentina. Though his contract had ended on March 1 "by mutual consent," Lord had praise for Perón, and with reason. The year, said he, had been worth "much more than a million" to his Inter-American Construction Corp. And he was surer than ever that he wanted to do business in Argentina...