Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin's plug for an imperial customs union warmed at least one Tory heart. When Arch-Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the Daily Express, heard of Bevin's remarks, he chuckled: "By God, I think I'll go right down to Transport House [Trade Union headquarters] and join the union...
...Summerville, a county seat in the northwest corner of the state. It started just before sundown, and by 10:30 the moaning and shouting and singing were going strong. Then Preacher Miller brought out the "salvation cocktail." He shouted: "Brother Davis, do you believe in the power of the Lord great enough to take what's in this bottle?" Farmer Ernest Davis, 34, grabbed the glass, took several gulps...
Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor-who looks every inch the part, in or out of his white wig-arrived in the U.S. for a month's visit, explained himself to Manhattan reporters. The Lord Chancellor, Jowitt said, is a "sort of combination of a chief justice and a minister of justice." One of the titles of the 1,300-odd-year-old office is Keeper of the King's Conscience. "The King's conscience," confided the Lord Chancellor, "is much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been...
Married. Jane Greer, 22, cinemactress; and Edward Lasker, 35, son of Millionaire Adman (Lord & Thomas) Albert Lasker; she for the second time (her first: oldtime Crooner Rudy Vallee), he for the second; in Las Vegas...
Remarried. Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Inverchapel, first Baron of Loch Eck, 65, Britain's tweedy Ambassador to the U.S.; and Chilean beauty Maria Teresa Diaz Salas, fortyish, whom he divorced two years ago; in Edinburgh (see FOREIGN NEWS...