Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after a brief absence, returned the verdict that it was not libelous for Viscount Gladstone to have referred to Captain Wright as "a foul fellow . . . a liar ... a coward . . . and a fool." Having thus squelched the Captain, the foreman of the jury addressed the presiding justice as follows: "My lord, the jury wish to add that it is our unanimous opinion that the evidence placed before us has completely vindicated the hieh moral character of the late Mr. William Ewart Glad-stone...
...announced that she was merely sailing for "a secret destination in the Orient." British statesmen, not so subtle, baldly admitted that 12,000 British troops were being rushed to China last week-thereby enraging both the northern and southern factions of the Chinese Civil War. Retaliation. The northern War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, expressed his displeasure by knocking out the kingpin of the whole fiscal structure upon which foreign loans to China rest. The structure is the Chinese Maritime Customs Bureau, the duties collected by which are pledged to the repayment of the foreign loans. The kingpin was Sir Francis...
Chen's luck is proverbial. In 1925 he was kidnaped by soldiers of Chang Tso-lin, against whom he is now fighting, and carried in chains before Chang. That barbaric War Lord, who slaughters even his own followers if they displease him (TIME, July 19), yielded to a whim and let Chen go. "Eugene Chen" is, of course, merely the Anglicism which he adopted as a London lawyer to translate his Chinese name: Chen...
...list of his assistants is still incomplete. As it stands now, however, the list includes D. R. K. Barnes '27, Dudley Bell '28, G. W. Blowers '28, W. R. Chase 1 G. B., A. G. Churchill '29, Alexander Donald '27, A. O. Fordvee '28, Hamilton Heard '28, W. W. Lord '28, W. R. Medders '28, William Mulford '28, O. M. Raymond, 3 L. J. C. Sprague '28 and W. S. Youngman...
...Harvard men will line up with Captain R. P. Outerbridge '28 at number one, A. C. Lane '27 at number two, and J. F. Davidson '27 as number three man, while R. P. Outerbridge, J. F. Davidson and R. T. Lord '27 will wield the epees...