Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...India and moved to the States in the third grade. It must have been the enthusiasm of having met my first real friend at Harvard that inspired something I called Ashvin of the Day: Part I..."And on the seventh day," I wrote the second week of school, "the Lord created Ashvin. And the Lord looked down and saw that Ashvin was good. And the Lord smiled upon Ashvin." This started a series of messages that I posted each night on our entryway door. If Dwight, our proctor, noticed them, he never mentioned anything--he didn't talk much, that...
...lifelong fan, I keep waiting for the comic heroine of The Philadelphia Story to enter. Wouldn't Tracy Lord have chastened Dexter with a blithe reprimand and moved on? If not humor, what about understanding and empathy? But these, the critics found, were the very qualities she had trouble conveying, which limited her to light comedies and, in later years, to playing starchy, irascible eccentrics. Hepburn was dogged for years by Dorothy Parker's famous put-down of her performance in the Broadway play The Lake: "Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut of emotion from A to B." If her parents...
...Copley, you'll find the grand departmentstores--Sakes, Lord and Taylor and Neiman Marcus...
Scared, scarred Selina Kyle is trudging homeward after another wretched day as secretary to the mighty Power & Light lord Max Shreck when she bumps into a fellow in a black cape. "Wow! The Batman!" she apostrophizes. "Or is it just -- Batman...
Yugoslavia is exactly the kind of conflict that collective security was supposed to address: small, isolated, manageable, involving none of the great powers. Yet as Lord Carrington, mediator for another would-be agency of collective security (the European Community), admitted, "It is very difficult to see what can be done while they go on fighting...