Word: lordship
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...lady strolled along, the blacked-out, soldier-crowded streets of Melbourne one evening last week to get a breath of air. They got it, but in gasps. "What we saw," spluttered the wowserish Lord Mayor of Melbourne, "is offensive to many decent-minded citizens." Next night His Lordship & Lady stalked out again, confirmed their dire observations of the uninhibited amorousness of U.S. soldiers and Australian girls...
...Marquess was a gruff-voiced Lord-of-the-Manor type who had divorced his wife, the Lady Emma, second daughter of the Marquess of Bath. There had been a great clatter and clucking at the divorce. His Lordship did not seem to mind the talk. One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said. Their motto was "I seek only...
...Lordship was making the rounds of his estate. He crushed the loam of his land between his strong fingers and he snuffed the sweet country air. When he passed Virginia Lucie he smiled. She smiled, too. For she was the daughter of an old Etonian whose name was in Who's Who; like thousands of other British girls of high and low birth, she chose to do her bit by working on the land...
...Lordship and the lovely Virginia Lucie fell in love. "I know how to milk a cow and to plow the fields and I love every bit of it," Virginia Lucie said. His Lordship was pleased. He, too, had the country heart and he dreamed of how Virginia Lucie's dark hair would shine in the candlelight at the dinner hour and how her slim legs would twinkle across the great oak floors and her laughter would drive away the shadows in the stormy nights of winter...
...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...