Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alfred Lord Tennyson...
...being serialized by London's Sunday Telegraph. "Winston's schooldays were the only unhappy part of his life," writes Randolph about his father. "The neglect and lack of interest shown by his parents were remarkable." Winny constantly begged "Mummy and Papa" to visit him at school, but "Lord Randolph was a busy politician; Lady Randolph was caught up in the whirl of fashionable society." The biographer, who himself suffered from having a busy famous father, concludes that parental indifference forced Winston early "to stand on his own feet...
...awarded scholarships by Britain's Kennedy Memorial Fund, established after the President's death to send Britons to the U.S. for research and travel. Never far from the side of her brothers-in-law Bobby and Teddy, Jackie said little, although she was especially pleased to see Lord Harlech, formerly Sir David Ormsby Gore, the British Ambassador to the U.S. during the Kennedy Administration. After the party, Jackie invited the students out to Hyannis Port for the weekend...
...England and set it up in his shop. Now Gray has decided to return to Ireland the 220-lb. souvenir of the great column that had stood for 157 years as a symbol of English domination. But, faith, nobody wanted it. "I even tried the Prime Minister and the lord mayor," said Gray. Finally a few members of the Dublin City Council agreed to meet Gray in a perfunctory little ceremony in O'Connell Street, where they accepted the head and dragged it away in a sack to storage...
...lord of the manor, an unfeeling fellow, imposes a rent increase on his poor tenant farmer. In his turn, the farmer cuts his field hand's wages to nearly nothing. In the next move, the destitute worker is sent off to debtors' prison...