Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closer to this generation than any other. The world is not what we naively wish it were. Man should not have the feeling "that life owes him something . . ." When we begin to see that things no longer obey our wishes, we are matured. This is the answer of the Lord from the whirlwind...
...Trollopian situation, as scientific panjandrums play politics with the skill and gusto of the Barchester Cathedral chapter contending over a vacant canonry. But the real story is a crisis in faith. Miles is distracted from his devotions by a girl named Audrey, and it is easy to see why Lord Rutherford did not like the erotic bits. She and Miles live it up at meetings of the Holborn Labour Party, and their sex life is described in the fiat and dogged style of Dr. Kinsey, but without the rich subject matter. It is certainly short of Ovid. Novelist Snow...
...cousin, then Lord Louis Mountbatten, suggested soothingly that there was no more fitting preparation for the throne than British naval training. Cousin Dickie was right. Albert Frederick Arthur George had been virtually ignored by everyone, from his mother, Queen Mary, to his nurse; but his service in the Royal Navy (where he was known as "Johnson") helped to set him up for the onerous business of living in the shadow of his brother's personality. Far from having David's "youthful charm and buoyancy," George was "shy and hesitant" and had a severe stammer. All Bertie...
...drafted to King Victor Emmanuel urging him to keep Italy out of the war, but he could not necessarily mail it. His Cabinet decided not to send it. He could express the opinion that it was wrong to let Gandhi out of jail, but if his Indian Viceroy (Lord Wavell) wanted to free him, there was nothing George could do. One thing he could do directly for his people, and that he did. Londoners will never forget him as the man who stayed on deck throughout the blitz, even though Buckingham Palace was hit nine times during...
...didn't like the erotic bits," Lord Rutherford told the young novelist one day in 1934. But otherwise, Britain's most famous scientist conceded, he liked The Search-a first novel by a young spectroscopist named Charles Percy Snow. The book was one of the first to take scientists at their own high estimate of themselves, it presented science itself as a religion, and it even mentioned Rutherford himself as a high pontifical character of unapproachable magnificence...