Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States Navy had known about the gag and simply played along. The men of the Bennington knew better, but decided to take their humiliation in stride. They collected $1,800 for the boys' charity and handed it over to Sydney's Lord Mayor Harry Jensen. His lordship was most grateful-and most sympathetic. After all, on the same day another group of students had seized him and whisked him off, a prisoner...
...this was vastly disappointing. Speaking for the Macmillan government in the House of Lords, the Earl of Perth explained that the British government intended to invite "representatives of all communities, including the Greek and Turkish Cypriots," to London to discuss "the internal problems" of Cyprus. Somewhat unhappily his lordship added: "If certain potential representatives go on making the sort of statements they have been making, it seems to me that the meetings will have to take place in at least two rooms, with the representatives of Her Majesty's government running between one lot and the other...
...speech before the Authors' Club of London, his lordship charged that America must take the blame for much that is bad in current English. American slang is often "virile and admirable," and his lordship gave his blessings to such terms as bulldozer, blurb, debunk. But he was appalled by the U.S. use of face up to for face, meet up with for meet, check up on for check. "These atrocities are probably due to the influence of German immigrants who did not learn English...
...press quickly picked up the story, but not without an argument. U.P. Staff Correspondent H. D. Quigg wondered whether his lordship would prefer to have the Gettysburg Address begin: "Eighty-seven years ago our fathers founded here a new nation." And what about the about, asked Quigg, in the Biblical phrase, "And the glory of the Lord shone round about them"? But Lord Conesford stuck to his guns. Last week, invited to appear on CBS-TV's The Last Word, he landed in the U.S. to continue the attack...
...lordship found himself on the defensive. Is it not true, asked M.C. Bergen Evans, that "you in England refer to what we call slums as depressed areas? Do you refer to unemployed people as a redundancy of workers? Do you refer to a moving van as a pantechnicon?" All too true, said his lordship, and added sadly that Britain's ratcatchers-"a most admirable set of men"-have decided it would be more dignified to be called rodent operators...