Word: lordship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three thousand miles away in the U. S., where there had been much talk of a new Britain run for little men by liberal men, there was some surprise at this choice: a Lordship, a Tory, an old Etonian, a man once associated with Chamberlain and the Cliveden set and that horrid word, appeasement. There were old-fashioned family tie-ups: the only other Foreign Secretary who subsequently became Ambassador to the U. S., Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was Lord Halifax's third cousin, and the man named to succeed him, Anthony Eden, is also his third cousin.* Lord...
...Before the Caesar-men, money collapses. The Imperial Age in every culture alike signifies the end of the politics of mind (rationalism) and money. The powers of the blood, unbroken bodily forces, resume their ancient lordship...
...opened immediate propaganda fire on the Defense Bill. "We are mildly surprised that the British Government found itself compelled to introduce a measure such as has never been considered in Germany," sneered Nazi Broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw, describing "Churchill's attempt to make himself a Napoleon." Said His Lordship: "There are a number of people in lunatic asylums who . . . have quite as much chance of saving England as Mr. Churchill has. But now that Democracy [in England] has received the last kick of farewell, what is the war aim which will justify mourning in every English home...
...Morrison flew into a fair frenzy, shouting: "The efforts of that ministerial misfit, Lord Stanhope, to turn the Norwegian withdrawal into something like a victory is typical irresponsibility based on the assumption that the British can't take it. Well, the British can take it, even if His Lordship...
...burly Justice John E. McGeehan, good Catholic, good Democratic "organization judge," got the case. Before him last week appeared Lawyer Goldstein with his plaintiff and four of his Lordship's published works,* proceeded to review the offending books. Said Critic Goldstein, Philosopher Russell's writings are "lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, atheistic, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful and bereft of moral fiber." Furthermore, he roared, the Earl had run an English nudist colony, gone in for salacious poetry, winked at homosexuality...