Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spanish Heritage. The concept of a wife sharing equally in her husband's earnings is a legal heritage from the Spanish and French settlers of the Southwest. The rest of the country followed the English common law, which holds that the husband is the lord and master, and as such owns all family property. But in recent years, common-law states have seen many of their prosperous citizens move to community-property states. In the last year, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nebraska and Oregon have switched in self-defense to the community-property concept...
...incomes running into five figures-they had little time for sightseeing or the movies. Many made a beeline for the American Royal Livestock Show, which ran concurrently with the F.F.A. convention. Others stuck to the convention agenda, listened to speeches by Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson and British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, and frolicked at a big barn-warming party, where they shucked corn and sweatily swung their partners in old-fashioned square dances...
Three Swatches. On Friday night Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, which had spurned the vows of secrecy imposed on every other paper, printed a picture purporting to be Elizabeth's wedding dress. It showed only three vague swatches of material draped over a couch, leaving a breathless public in no way wiser, but Elizabeth determined to tighten security measures even further...
Godlike Voice. Christiansen gets along with people. His journalist's creed is simply: "People, people, people!" This formula, plus his enormous energy, made him editor of Lord Beaverbrook's flamboyant Express at 29. In his first year, 1933, he raised the circulation 160,000, made the Express the world's biggest daily. And he has kept it there ever since. Into a four-page paper, Christiansen and his editors pack as many as 70 brisk, brief, breezy news stories, as well as pictures and features. They highlight them with tricky typography (when the "Ink Spots" quartet visited...
...highly unreliable report stemming from Amherst said bath towel-clad girls had been seen knocking on the doors of the Lord Jeffs' fraternity houses...