Word: lordly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister-in-law of No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Soon after World War II began she took German citizenship by special dispensation of the Führer, then contracted double pneumonia and last week was convalescent in Munich. "I am a very sad man," groaned her father, Lord Redesdale, in London recently. "The King's enemies are the enemies of every honest Englishman...
...hrer Hitler's camp was opposite his own and that he was a "sworn enemy of brute force." The Viceroy invited him back again, and then again, until last week His Excellency and the Mahatma saw each other for the third time in less than a month. Meanwhile, Lord Linlithgow busied himself with talks with other Indian leaders-princes, Moslems, Hindus, Sikhs...
...Pulitzer Prize play that made the late Sidney Howard famous. After 15 years it seems (like rooms and houses not seen since childhood) much smaller than memory suggested. It still has fresh and human qualities and a wise moral, but clearly it was the brilliant acting of Pauline Lord, Richard Bennett and Glenn Anders that gave it its original gloss...
Next day in the House of Lords Minister of Information Lord Macmillan gave out details. Of the Ministry's famed 999, some 450 staff members remained to write and distribute propaganda. The new department took over 399 censors and press relations officials. By discreetly adding these two figures, the most doddering peer could realize for himself that only about 150 of the Ministry's personnel had actually lost their jobs...
...Tulsa, Okla., Rosanner Speights, 66, married Ulysses Grant Sisney, 90. It was her seventh marriage, his fourth. Said the bride: "A preacher once asked me why I got married so much. I told him the Good Lord kept taking...