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Van Dine's detective novels of the 1930s might have been mystified by the insertion into the dialogue of its lordly hero expressions like don'tcher know and the anathematized ain't .
It is a seer's eye moving lordly through the bar,over all of us its rapture cool, so otherworldly,who here can deny that hidden craving is abroad,and that the cure lies in the body spread before usthat the eye alone is shrewd enough to read.
In the mid 14th century, it was sirly `like a sir,' or `lordly, haughty, imperious, arrogant, supercilious.
Men of presidential quality tend to be arrogant, with a sense of "entitlement and lordly expectation" (David Remnick, The New Yorker ). The best example of presidential bravura ever: When told of John F. Kennedy's womanizing, Lyndon Johnson responded, "God damn it, I had more women by accident than he ever had by design!"
You might think that Spencer's plummy accent, Hugh Grant-y good looks, and lordly manner--well, he is a lord--would make Britons nostalgic for the good old days.
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