Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday, leaped at Mr. Bloom, who wants them open; put his Texan arm around Mr. Bloom's neck. They grappled, heaved, fell across the committee table. One L. B. Schloss joined the fray, was knocked to the floor, kicked. The Rev. Harry L. Bowlby, secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance, was reported as having picked out the smallest man in the room (a stenographer), knocked off his glasses, punched him.* Somebody called the police, but they did not arrive until after Hattie Pitts of the McKendree Methodist Church lifted her hands and her voice in prayer, shrieked...
...Nationalist (Cantonese) advance upon Shanghai (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) brought them a great victory early in the week when they captured and looted Hangchow, 113 miles from Shanghai, and put to flight the troops of War Lord Sun Chuan-fang, defender of Shanghai...
...previously extraneous force entering the Chinese Civil War, last week was the advance southwestward from Shensi Province into Honan of the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang with an army which has long skulked in Mongolia (TIME, June...
...Honan province the local "Scholar" War Lord Wu Pei-fu was holding back troops of the Peking War Lord Chang Tso-lin which had been despatched to defend Shanghai from the Nationalists by the Peking-Manchuria faction...
...only by two male auto mechanicians. We shall proceed as much as possible by land in a six-cylinder German sedan accompanied by a high speed truck. I have already won the 1926 South German reliability tour of 500 miles against a field of 50 male and female drivers." Lord Amherst: "My cousin, Miss Victoria Drummond, a god-daughter of Her late Majesty, Queen Victoria, recently obtained her 'ticket' as a fully qualified seagoing marine engineer. It became known that she had served her time in an engine room at sea, performing all the duties of her male...