Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston's Federal District Court last week a gaunt, haughty, thin-lipped man stood up to hear his sentence. He was Douglas Chandler, onetime newspaper reporter, American Lord Haw Haw, convicted as a common traitor (TIME, July 7). The judge gave him one more chance to speak...
Founder Tate always liked a picture that told a story, so the gallery began with such contemporary favorites as Sir Luke Fildes' The Doctor, Lord Leighton's The Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead, and Millais' drowned Ophelia (his model: Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who posed fully gowned in a tub of flower-littered water...
Died. Arthur Hamilton Lee, Viscount Lee of Fareham, 78, one-time First Lord of the Admiralty, whose chief claim to fame was his 1921 gift to the nation of his Buckinghamshire estate, Chequers, as a country home for Britain's Prime Ministers; after long illness; in Avening, Gloucestershire, England...
...York Post's Columnist F.P.A. thought he saw an omen in Harry Truman's nostalgia for the Senate. "Lord!" wrote Adams. "After J. Q. Adams had been President he became a representative from Massachusetts." For omen-sighters there was a better precedent. Like Harry Truman, Andrew Johnson was a Senator before death made him President; six years after he left the White House he was again elected a Senator (from Tennessee...
...Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake. And if that is not too easy We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, what e'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb...