Word: lordlier
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...many years ago that some of the lordlier firms had outside lawyers do their litigating for them, just as a dentist may send a patient to a dental surgeon to have a tooth pulled. But times have changed. Now many of the big firms can brag that along with all their other services they offer clients the skills of specialists in the belligerent arts of litigation. Since the troops first turned out to defend the electrical-equipment companies against price-fixing charges in 1960, the roster of counsel in this continuing flood of litigation has read like a roll call...
...Indo-China late one night last week. One was the Communist Viet Minh's Pham Van Dong; another was France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France; the third was Albert Sarraut, an oldtime French empire builder who had been governor of Indo-China in lordlier days when there were no such irritants as the Viet Minh. Each had a red pencil in his hand. Beneath their hands the map was slashed with red lines, until Viet Nam began to look like a body crisscrossed with bloody welts. On the lawn outside, a dog howled at the moon...
Robeson's great voice, stature, bearing were physically impressive. He gave a plausible impression of being just such a towering man as was Othello himself. More important, Robeson conveyed the bigness of Othello's nature-its warmth, poetry (nobody in Shakespeare utters lordlier speech), simplicity, trustingness: the clawing horror which seizes Othello when lago dupes him into thinking himself a cuckold could come only from an utterly unjealous nature...
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