Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Man, originally a short story, was based on a quotation from Lord Leighton, a British painter: "There is another man inside me, cynical, blase, critical." Behrman dramatized the story in three weeks while unemployed and casting about desperately for ideas; produced by the Theatre Guild, it was an overnight success, and Behrman has been a playwright ever since...
...London performance of The Second Man, Harold Laski introduced the playwright to a tremendously tall British lord ("He seemed interminable.") Sensing that the nobleman was not interested in the conversation, Laski said, "You know, Mr. Behrman wrote the play you're seeing tonight...
...editor gave her in 1947 when she began her column for the London Daily Express: "Write it so that every woman will say, 'What a bitch Anne Edwards is.' " For the next dozen years, blonde, blue-eyed Columnist Edwards was as sassy as she could be for Lord Beaverbrook's bustling Daily Express (circ. 4,084,603). Her weekly 8-in. column grew to a half page as she worked over tempting targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once ran a picture showing the rumpled derriere...
Last week her skill in attracting readers-both male and female-catapulted Columnist Edwards, 48, into the top woman's job in British journalism: assistant editor of Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch (circ. 1,834,859). The Sunday Dispatch won Anne away from Beaverbrook with the fanciest offer ever made an English newswoman, including a pale blue car, an endowment policy that will put away some of her salary tax-free for old age, a fat expense account, and well over $20,000 a year...
...created post of adviser to the Beaverbrook empire (four papers with a total circulation of more than 8,000,000); buxom, blonde Eileen Ascroft, forty-sixish, who will leave Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in April to primp up the score of dowdy women's magazines that Press Lord Cecil King (the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial group) got when he bought Amalgamated Press...