Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughters. Nancy thought she knew his real reason : there was only one W.C. in the House of Lords. As a parsimonious peer bringing up six daughters in a di minishing series of houses where the plumbing had not been much improved since the Black Death, his lordship knew how inconvenient females...
...brother-in-law or a sister-in-law legal even while the first spouse, though divorced, is still alive. Last week he tried again. Urging that his bill would eliminate the "great hardship" of perhaps 1,000 Britons presently living in "irregular unions" with in-laws, his lordship argued that "if a man cannot be forced to marry his sister-in-law, it may even encourage him to commit adultery with...