Word: milord
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pamphlet deriding "The Life & Times of Milord Tydings," picturing his Chesapeake Bay estate (whence Washington clubs and hotels buy 1,000 hens' eggs a day) as a feudal manor and his rich New Deal in-laws, Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, as a royal family...
...press handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague the Viscount created a great stir by thanking Sudeten German delegates for having met him at the station. Vexed Czechs made tart comments. Sudetens, learning with glee that "the British milord speaks German but he does not speak Czech," began referring to him as "Runzelmann" -which, freely translated, means The Man With the Wrinkled (i.e., Thoughtful) Brow...
...Milord Archbishop, what a scold...
...would doubtless have murdered Mr. Latimer on sight, the people whom Mr. Latimer entertains in Where Sinners Meet are four amiable peewees, admirably suited to his favorite pastime of interrupting elopements to make sure that the participants are well matched. Leonard (Reginald Owen) is a gruff and ignorant milord running off with a charming lady named Anne (Diana Wynyard). Under Mr. Latimer's hospitable roof he is surprised to meet his wife Eustasia (Billie Burke) eloping with a toothy young bachelor named Nicholas (Alan Mowbray). By the time Mr. Latimer has given both his male guests colds...
...read him will do so again without any blurbs from the Vagabond. "Saki" is the entrepreneur between Englishmen and morals and a delighted audience. He is the epitome of sophisticated wit, a judicious mixture of cynicism and sentiment, and charming withal. His good-natured satire falls as lightly on milord and lady as on the foibles of the charwoman next door...