Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been hurt by the fact. He included in his Cabinet three other divorced men: Sir Walter Monckton, Secretary for Scotland James Stuart, and President of the Board of Trade Peter Thorneycroft. When Harold Macmillan succeeded Eden, he appointed another divorced man to the Cabinet, Minister of Education Lord Hailsham. Minister of Defense Duncan Sandys recently separated legally from Winston Churchill's eldest daughter Diana...
...love Lucy?" sneered Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. The Express complained that the infiltration of American TV has become a "persistent, irresistible intrusion ... a tumbling, roaring flood." The BBC televises seven American-made shows each week (Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Amos 'n' Andy, I Married Joan, Hey, Jeannie, Star Choice and Champion, the Wonder Horse) and also has three programs whose formats and titles are carbon copies of U.S. shows (What's My Line?, This Is Your Life, Twenty Questions...
Insidious Influence. Lord Beaverbrook was not silenced. His Evening Standard retorted: "A lame reply to those who criticize Channel 9's American accent. The influence is most insidious and gives serious cause for complaint . . . The U.S. puts its views in a famous program: the Voice of America. There is no need for Sir Robert to double this role...
...Lord Protector's well-embalmed head has not had a reposeful history. In 1660, two years after the 59-year-old Cromwell died in his bed (of a fever), the House of Commons, full of the heady days of the Restoration and Charles II, directed that his body be disinterred and hanged. The cadaver dangled on a gibbet all day long on the twelfth anniversary of Charles I's execution, then was cut down and decapitated; the body was buried under the gallows at Tyburn (near London's present Marble Arch), the head stuck on a pike...
...come to a seething boil, and the novel spills over into melodrama, j murder and suicide. Novelist Vansittart, 36, is an English teacher in a London I school; his compassion and scrupulosity in distinguishing good from bad Germans are in generous contrast to the views of his late uncle, Lord Vansittart, whose implacable antipathy could be summed up in an adaptation of the elder Cato: Ceterum censeo Germaniam esse delendam...