Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This voice identified itself last week as Michael Foot, 34, a wiry, wily Labor M.P. whose last editorial command was acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. He has been a Tribune director since 1945. An ice-cold logician and red-hot debater, Foot is one of a minority of parliamentary Laborites who know what they mean when they call themselves Socialists...
...Bruegel considered viciously corrupt. The half-submerged head itself was the Christian world, its mouth on fire, and in the background floated a menacing turretful of Turks. Hermit Saint Anthony turns his back on the nightmare. Ignoring the crossbowman above him, he takes comfort in the psalm: "In the Lord put I my trust . . . for lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string...
...sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Marian Anderson, singing Dvorak's Songs My Mother Taught Me, Saint-Saëns' My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice, and the spirituals, Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen and My Soul's Been Anchored in De Lord...
Died. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 89, widow of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President; in Manhattan. A niece of Harrison's first wife, she helped out as White House hostess during her aunt's last illness, married Harrison in 1896, 3½ years after her aunt's death, three years after Harrison left the White House...