Word: lording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Mary Pillsbury Lord, 73, former U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission and delegate to the General Assembly; of cancer; in Manhattan. The granddaughter of the founder of the Pillsbury flour company, Lord served as a volunteer in numerous health and welfare organizations. In 1945 during one of her many tours of Europe for the WAC, Lord struck up a friendship with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and in 1952 became co-chairman of the National Citizens Committee for Eisenhower-Nixon and campaigned tirelessly for the Republican ticket. In 1953 when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her post on the Human...
...factual The Cloud Forest (1961) and the fictional At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965), Matthiessen and his characters successfully, and at times beautifully, conveyed the dilemma of the Western mind: a need to worship wilderness and a desire to tame it in the name of progress and profit...
...time ma chine. She also likes to play with micro-armor: tiny scale models of tanks. A few hours after her fatal accident in Gamma World, she was marshaling miniature armies of dwarfs and ores in a battle based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic, The Lord of the Rings. This was not a good weekend for Kim; her side, the dwarfs, was annihilated...
...together at last -John Everett Millais's Bubbles, Sir Edwin Landseer's Stag at Bay, George Frederick Watts' Hope, John Collier's The Prodigal Daughter and dozens more. Nothing could have seemed more secure than the fame and popularity of their authors; painters like Lord Leighton or, especially, Alma-Tadema (who, while working on one of his Imperial Roman story-pictures, had fresh roses shipped to him from the south of France weekly for four months to get the petals right) made untaxed fortunes, lived on a scale of grandeur that makes Picasso's seem...
...tale. And, in point of fact, both Dibdin and Estleman observe the law, grant them that. As the mystery writer Dorothy Sayers will write of the Sherlockian pastiche, "The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord's." Neither writer mocks; both stories are formal. Both will have readers clued to their seats. But face it, old fellow, your speech is pathetically easy to echo...