Word: lording
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...DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...
...righteous gentiles, may your mercies be heaped upon them, O Lord. --Hebrew prayer...
...understanding. Perhaps it should be regarded as a revelation from an unknown prophet to a future generation, an expression so tangible that even an age so obsessed with material things as our own might understand it, just as the disciple Thomas was allowed to touch the wounds of our Lord with his own hands in order to believe and have faith. DANIEL MERCER Pennsauken...
LONDON: What do novelist Jeffrey Archer, Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson and Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson have in common? Answer: They all have the opportunity to fulfill their dream to become the first Lord Mayor of London elected by a popular vote, after the British capital voted late Thursday in favor of having one. Another thing they have in common -- Londoners don?t want them...
...Wilde's sexuality but his "mystery" that Hare says inspired him to write The Judas Kiss. (The play received mixed reviews during its London run.) By bringing a doomed libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry--the outraged, decidedly macho father of Wilde's bratty, poetic young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas--Wilde unleashed the forces that in time consumed him. "There was an element of hubris," says Hare. "He may have thought there wasn't a situation that he couldn't talk himself...