Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fantastic collages, Gorey recombines the elements of forgotten Victorian novels, reshuffling the set pieces and stock characters after his fancy. One of my favorites, The Object-Lesson, is constructed along these lines, piling delicious non sequitur on delicious non sequitur, like this: "It was already Thursday, but his lordship's artificial limb could not be found; therefore, having directed the servants to fill the baths, he seized the tongs and set out at once for the edge of the lake, where the Throbblefoot Spectre still loitered in a distraught manner...
...that placed full-page ads in the New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today last week. The Times ad features a big picture of Anne, who claims to have been saved by Exodus International, a ministry that believes gayness can be overcome by "ongoing submission to the Lordship of Christ." The ad quotes extensively from "The Other Way Out: The Stories of John and Anne Paulk" (and thanks Trent Lott for having the courage to speak the truth about sexual sin). Anne's story is rather chaste: she had several "fleeting" relationships with women in college...
...True Medal of Honor recipients and their families have a right to be outraged by [H.S.I. Lordship Industries Inc.'s] conduct...
...District Judge William G. Bassler yesterday before imposing the maximum fine allowed under federal guidelines on Lordship, the company that holds the contract to make the nation's highest combat decoration, for selling 300 bootleg Medals of Honor...