Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday edition in one sitting, through and through, every word...
...note of undue levity entered debate in Britain's House of Lords. Occasion: their lordships' second reading of the Street Offences Bill, aimed at giving streetwalkers a red light. In his maiden speech, the Earl of Arran, 55, disclosed that he has been "carrying out a personal research-with the aid of the authorities and also through conversations with some of the unhappy ladies." His awesomely exact conclusion: "One in every 544 adult women in Metropolitan London is a harlot." Then dignity-packed Earl Howe, 75, felt compelled to report upon some involuntary research...
...wing newspapers and stirring up the natives. Visiting M.P.s such as Laborite John Stonehouse ("really quite harmless, except that he was extremely ignorant") had been completely taken in by the Africans, who "until they are very much advanced are all liars." When the hubbub in the House subsided, His Lordship went on to talk about the "burden, at any rate, the mission [of] looking after Nyasaland. I should like to say that the people in the Federation have not the slightest intention of surrendering Nyasaland to destruction by its own people...
...Minister (TIME, Sept. 30). Now Viscount Hailsham, Lord President of the Council, chairman of the Conservative Party and a remorseless Tory, Hogg was asked on a BBC show if he, though a member of the House of Lords, could hope to become Prime Minister. "Nobody but a fool," his lordship blurted, "would want to be Prime Minister...
Also on the plus side, Odiorne rates suburban indifference to sects and even the suburban tendency to conformity, which he finds is modeled on "the proper mixture of doctrinal emphasis on the Bible, the Lordship of Christ, witness in life and by word...