Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christmas is Bill Green's biggest day. His six children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren move in. The happy president of the A.F.L., who buys toys all year for the occasion, is the lord of all he surveys. He decorates the tree, hands out candy and nuts to the hordes of old friends, miners, businessmen, who call...
...howdy?' Things at once went like oil & I was soon having flirtations with three of the nobility at the same time ... I inspected the gardens with another 'chawmer' & ended up by jollying the hostess herself all by her lonesome for ten minutes while a uniformed Lord stood by & never got in anything except an occasional...
...cricketer, though he never won his blue, he wrote the chapter on sport in the Oxford handbook. A confirmed bachelor, he accepted an invitation to a B.N.C. ball, with the stipulation that he be allowed to bring his own date. He arrived with his date on his arm: the Lord Chief Justice Baron Goddard...
...celebration was just getting under way in the Yankee dressing room when Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail made a little speech. It was his first World Series championship in 18 years of baseball and also his last. He was retiring, he said. "Thank the Lord I can go out with a winner...
...Lord Frank Gannett, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Bullitt, Columnist Walter Winchell. For Winchell, Vishinsky reserved his choicest invective: "The new American Baron Munchausen, famous . . . for his utterly absurd lies...