Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressed hard on red-faced, 78-year-old Labor Lord Addison to agree to a delay and a conference. His object: to reform the House of Lords the Tory way. A conference would probably result in a compromise: cutting the present membership by more than half, allowing hereditary peers to elect parliamentary representatives from their own ranks (as Scottish peers do), balancing the reduced hereditary element by creating more Laborite peers...
Radcliffe girls, she claimed, don't buy as many, and they spend twice as long making up their minds. "Especially on the sentimental ones-my Lord...
...Being tied up with Russia," declared Britain's bellicose Lord Vansittart (Black Record), "is like being married to an 18-stone* woman who is always deceiving one and then abusing...
...down, 29-year-old Dodds began to go even faster. His time for the Wanamaker Mile-4:05.3-broke his own world's indoor mile record by more than a second. As usual, he took only part of the credit: "I always do my best trusting in the Lord. I feel as if He's with me-I'm not out there completely alone...
...founded. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is all the more gruesomely trapped because he deeply loves his wife (Diana Wynyard), a noble but somewhat priggish woman who, he is sure, would cease to love him if he should fail to match her idealization of him. His close friend Lord Goring (Michael Wilding), a gentle loafer who handles most of Wilde's sharpest lines, does all he can to get him off the spot. These characters, and others, are so brightly and efficiently presented that they become archetypes for their place and period...