Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works, by a sharp-eyed Pennsylvania clergyman named Theodore Pitcairn. Last week at Christie's in London, it was sold at auction to an anonymous collector for $441,000-the highest price ever paid for a Van Gogh. The proceeds will go to Pastor Pitcairn's Swedenborgian Lord's New Church in Bryn Athyn...
...Life of Samuel Johnson was more esteemed as a feat of stenography than as a work of literature. In the 19th century, the book was accurately revalued as the first great biography in English, but its author was dismissed by proper Victorians as a whoremongering buffoon. "Servile and impertinent," Lord Macaulay called him, "a bigot and a sot, a talebearer, a common butt in the taverns of London." But Boswell was to have the last word -in fact, several million of them...
...Italy, he expressed his nobility in "the noble passion of lust." He also had an audience with Pope Clement XIII ("He looked jolly landlord and smiled") and charmed Lord Mountstuart, the 20-year-old son of Lord Bute, the favorite of King George HI. It was Boswell's big chance for a career at court, and he muffed it. He took Mountstuart to a whorehouse, brought him home severely plagued by Venus, was dismissed in disgrace from milord's retinue...
...renew the billion-dollar bundle for Britain. The pound, which two weeks ago had dropped to a 15-month low of $2.78 27/32, rallied to $2.79 2/32. But in the finance ministries and central banks of Europe and North America, money managers were asking: "How long, O Lord, how long?" Ex actly how long does the world have to continue to prop up the pound...
Like a Chameleon. It often seems that way. Durable Unilever has been a father figure in African enterprise since Lord Leverhulme, founder of the firm's British branch, in 1911 won a concession from Belgium's King Leopold II to develop a 1,875,000-acre plantation in the Congo. The company planted oil palms for its soap, later prospered by buying farm products from the Africans and selling household goods to them -pocketing a profit on both ends. Reaching out, U.A.C. also became the biggest merchandiser in the 14 former French colonies of Africa...