Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When his lordship nodded, Leo was amazed. "I had never met a lord before, nor did I ever expect to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being . . . long, long after...
Behind his angry lordship, officers and troopers of the Light Brigade were being torn to shreds. "Death was coming fast, and the Light Brigade was meeting death in perfect order; as a man or horse dropped, the riders on each side . . . opened out; as soon as they had ridden clear, the ranks closed again." Words of command "rang out as on the parade ground: 'Close in to your center. Back the right flank! Keep up. Private Smith. Left squadron, keep back. Look to your dressing.' Until at last, as the ranks grew thinner and thinner, only one command...
...Jeeves is imperturbably ready with a Latin quip ("'Rem acu tetigisti,' which might be rendered by the American colloquialism, 'You said a mouthful' "), historical precedents ("In the words of Pliny the Younger . . .") and unobtrusive counsel ("Had I been aware that your lordship was in the habit of sleeping in mauve pajamas, I would have advised against it"). Author Wodehouse promises not to let this great mind lie fallow for so long again...
...Constitutional Club, a blue-blood and blue-chip Tory audience which applauded him rousingly. Socialists complained that he had infringed "the rights of Her Majesty's Parliament" by airing "important policy" before a private group, but such constitutional niceties were soon submerged in debate over what his lordship...
...Colossal Effigy. In 1920, John went on one of his most famous rampages. Shortly after he had finished a portrait of Lord Leverhulme, founder of the Lever Bros, soap empire, the canvas was returned with the head cut out of the picture. "I wrote to his Lordship requiring an explanation of this remarkable proceeding . . . I received in return a letter stating that, on finding the picture too large to place in his safe, the owner had cut out what he considered to be the most important part, that is the head . . . As for the remainder, it had been sent back...