In a humorous speech, complete with a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, Van Zandt brought down the house: "To sound that black, you had to be Italian, " he joked.
Smiles were brought to the face of Tories inside the Treasury when the little known Lord Tunnicliffe, Labour's Deputy Chief Whip in the Lords, made the mistake of assuming that no-one listens to what's said in the House of Lords.
The committee found the evidence against Lord Truscott "so clear and so plentiful that we have little doubt that Lord Truscott was advertising his power and willingness to influence Parliament in return for a substantial financial inducement".
I'm gonna do you a little boogie on this here piano, doing mighty fine, I'm gonna make you shake it, I'll make you do it and make you do it until you break it, it's called the Lewis boogie, in the Lewis way, Lord, I do my little boogie woogie every day.
While the Lord of the Rings movies often took themselves a little too seriously, The Hobbit is Saturday matinee fun on a huge scale.
It matters little who leaked a letter last week from the chancellor to Lord Turner, the head of the Pensions Commission that published its long-awaited findings on Wednesday.
For Labour, shadow Treasury Minister Lord Eatwell said the chancellor had delivered a "mean little Budget" that hurt the poor.
It does not matter, though of course it should, that Lord Burns considers most other ways of killing to be little kinder to the fox.
But Lord Browne focused too much on the soft furnishings and too little on the foundations.
Although there has been little dissent among Lib Dem MPs, several peers - including former Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott - have urged Mr Clegg to stand down before the next election in 2015 to help the party regain support.
And there was little love lost between Mr Hague's young classless advisers and the older, patrician Lord Cranborne.
From the beginning volunteers from Europe and America, notably Lord Byron, went to Greece to assist the cause, although militarily they made little difference.
He describes it as Lord of the Rings meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Muppets, with a little bit of Stars Wars thrown in.
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Yet even if Lord Layard's theory is right, his figure for the optimal tax rate looks like little more than convenient guesswork.
Little did Toynbee suspect that as he was writing his premature obituary, a new generation was adopting the Lord of the Rings as its own.
Lord Layard's analysis suggests an alternative view: it is not that Europeans are working too little, but that Americans work too long, driven to choose more income instead of leisure by an urge to keep up with the Joneses.
Lord Broers, a distinguished engineer and former vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, was worried by how little we spent on research and development as a country compared to rivals - 1.7% of GDP in the UK, as compared to 2.8% in Germany and 2.9% in the United States.
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