Word: milord
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days when the English milord traveled through remote and dangerous foreign lands with nothing but a valet, a revolver and a universally acceptable bag of sovereigns, are, alas (and partly by our own folly), long gone," sighed the British weekly, Time & Tide, last week...
...impoverished milord of today needs to be just as resourceful in dealing with the hostile natives," Time & Tide continued. "A friend of mine who has spent the past couple of years in the Middle East was annoyed at the way so many Arabs carried pictures of Colonel Nasser and kept bringing them out and kissing them. He was very grateful to TIME Magazine, he said, for publishing a cover picture of Sir Anthony Eden. Now he carries that around wherever he goes and kisses it ostentatiously in return...
...Venezuela to horse around with thoroughbreds, Prince Aly Khan was greeted at the Caracas airport by newsmen addressing him as "milord." The formality soon gave way to impertinent questions, which Aly answered with bubbling good humor. Asked one reporter: "How much did [exwife No. 2] Rita Hayworth cost you?" Chuckling, the prince cracked: "Why? Are you planning to marry her, too?" Led into expressing a preference for raven-haired Latin women, Aly was led right back into admitting that he has no personal prejudice against blondes-or redheads, for that matter, finally, a newsman popped the inevitable query: "Prince...
...rash child (Actor Curtis) of the 14th century who doesn't know his own father. To find out who he is, the young man takes service as a squire with the kindly Earl of Mackworth (Herbert Marshall), quickly wins distinction with his arms-in the bower of milord's pretty daughter (Actress Leigh) as well as in the joust. In the end, Curtis clears his father's name, puts the crunch on the villain, gets the girl-and saves the state...
...nearly every farmhouse had guests in the little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought many farmers in to town. Children, evacuated from Nice and Bordeaux, sat down to the midday meal with weekending parents and relatives. At the Hotel Milord (Léon Milord, Prop.), lamb stew, a specialty of the house, was being served with a light, dry wine. There was excitement in the air and a buzz of conversation around the tables that sunny Saturday in 1944: just four days earlier the Allies had landed in Normandy...