Word: lordship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cablegrams) to stir up interest. Fortnight ago CBS's short-wave listening station heard Lord Haw-Haw introduced; then a voice said, in German, "Switch that off." Later it was announced to America that Haw-Haw had been "banned from the air." But England continued to hear His Lordship on his usual schedule. Last week Lord Haw-Haw explained that he had been "banned" not by Germany but by the major U.S. networks, which refused to rebroadcast his stuff. No U.S. network rebroadcasts the official propaganda of any belligerent...
This fanfareless meeting did not mean that the Administration was chilly to Lord Halifax. It did mean that celebrity-loving citizens of the U.S. have found his Lordship a chill, unbending, colorless personality. The qualities which appeal most to his own countrymen-diffidence, reserve, intellectual honesty-make no impression on the U.S. masses...
...imagine," said His Lordship. "I saw a match once, in Chicago." Then he mentioned that he had caught the first World Series game the day before, by radio. Said he: "I rather enjoyed it. The attendance...
...Marksmen Ed Wylie, of New York City, and S. L. Hutcheson, of Greenwich, Conn.: the North American .20-gauge and all-bore skeet championships, respectively; from a field of 114 shooters at the Remington Gun Club, Lordship, Conn. Both broke 100 straight...
...William Joyce. . . ." If his father's death had anything to do with his decision to abandon his incognito, he did not say so. Instead, he explained that he had dropped it to answer a series of London newspaper stories calling him a common spy. Said his indignant Lordship: "All these imputations I disregard as garbage...