Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blankets, begging her not to be offended by the goat smell. Then one of them turned to the audience, and exclaimed: "Think how the Blessed Virgin had not so much as a bed or sack to protect her, nor fire to warm the icy air, and that the Lord of the world had neither mattress nor cushion on which...
...audience where they hailed from by the way they talked. His batting average: a respectable 80%. He made them pronounce such shibboleths as Mary, marry, merry (people from west of the Appalachians make no distinction), and wash, water, Washington. Smith's most notable failure: his wartime insistence that Lord Haw-Haw could not be William Joyce (he was). Smith thought Joyce pronounced longer, hunger and German like a German-American, not an Irish-American...
...block were about $200,000 worth of paintings, including items from the collections of Lord Halifax, Lord Winterton and the estate of the late Lord Rothermere. As usual, Sir Alec Martin, the 63-year-old managing director of Christie's, conducted the auction himself. Last week, the sale ended, he was able to report that Christie's had all but wound up one of its busiest years since...
Drops of Blood. Anguish at Christie's has not always been confined to those who have been forced to sell. When Lord Nelson heard that a portrait of Lady Hamilton was to go on the block, he wrote a desperate note to his Emma: "But you are at auction. Good God! My blood boils." He succeeded in buying the picture (for ?300) before the auction day, and recorded happily that "I should have bought it . . . if it had cost me 300 drops of blood...
...upped to 10%. Christie's percentages on the sale of pictures, silver, jewelry, furniture, china have brought the house a prosperity equal to its fame. In 1941, the old King Street auction room was bombed out. In recent months the house has conducted its business rent-free in Lord Spencer's 18th Century house in St. James's Place. As overhead is low, the seven partners make a gross profit of over ?100,000 on an annual gross of ?1,000,000. British stocks in public companies usually pay no more than 6%. But Christie shares...