Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind...
...Dollars to Save Britain." The story of this calamity-one of the most important events of the postwar world-begins two years ago when Lord Keynes came to the U.S. to talk about getting dollars to save Britain. Keynes started with the idea that nothing less than 5 billion dollars would prime the pump; even that would have to be protected by special restrictions against seepage. The American negotiators told him he was wrong; they said 3.75 billion was enough, and that Britain, in .the interests of freer world trade, would have to throw away protective restrictions. The British, having...
...Lord Inverchapel, Britain's suave Ambassador to the U.S. (who looks like a cigar-store Indian with a Valspar finish), went to Britain last month for his first vacation in ten years. In the midst of Britain's crisis, the Foreign Office ordered him back to the U.S. immediately. But he had come to Britain, protested Inverchapel, on important personal business: to acquire a wife and to exorcise a witch. The Foreign Office thought this a sample of the celebrated Inverchapel wit. It had hardly stopped chuckling before Inverchapel had accomplished both missions...
...Lord and Lady Inverchapel were then free to obey the Foreign Office, returned...
...time it takes to adjust a girdle, the nation's advertising writers last week joined the fashion revolution begun by couturiers and fashion magazines (TIME, Aug. 18). A year ago Manhattan's Lord & Taylor had lyrically praised suits with "new bulky tops" and short-skirted hip-hugging dresses that had matured into "a faultless anatomy of design." Last week L. & T.'s ads cried: "Remember those shoulders out to-here, those hazardous days of the short tight skirts...