Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberal M.P.'s mostly seemed content. But the chief Liberal peers, headed by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, announced next day that they had formed "the Liberal Council," really a new party with a separate headquarters and pledged to support the policies of Lord Oxford and Asquith who resigned (TIME, Oct. 25) as Leader of the Liberal party on account of disagreements with Lloyd George...
Burly of stature but impeccably sleek, the Earl of Birkenhead vacationed last week at Funchal, balmy and (in winter) fashionable port-city of Madeira. Careless of his dignity as Secretary of State for India and a onetime (1919-22) Lord Chancellor, the Earl rode about by day in a canopied sled drawn by bullocks-the peculiar means of transport on this Portuguese isle. At eve, Lord Birkenhead dined, naturally at one of the great hotels-the same in which George Bernard Shaw stopped when he visited Madeira, two winters ago. There the dancing master who taught Mr. Shaw to tango...
...dinner waxed, two dapper gentlemen at a nearby table saw Lord Birkenhead look upon the .wine of Madeira-and it was red. Then the dapper gentlemen began a spelling match, quite innocently, between themselves. Soon they, shrewd sharpers, were betting on each other's spelling prowess. When the game was ripening to high stakes one of the so dapper gentlemen approached the Earl of Birkenhead. "We know Your Lordship is a great student of the English language. . . . Perhaps Your Lordship will spell two score words against my friend-?100 to the winner. . . . Your Lordship has the repute of being...
Little Eddas and Peppinos have been so used to rattling off: / am the Lord thy God. . . . Thou shalt have no other gods before me. . . . Honor thy father and thy mother . . . that last week their tongues tripped and stuttered as they repeated...
Clarence Mackay, telegraph lord: "I got last week a first glimpse of my granddaughter, Mary Ellin Berlin, aged eight weeks, but only in a full front page photograph in the New York Daily Mirror, tabloid. As everyone knows, I disowned my daughter Ellin when she married Irving Berlin, songwriter, and I have also refused to visit the baby or let the baby visit me. The child, which was photographed asleep, looks like any dark, fat, healthy baby. People say this is the first time any baby's picture has occupied the entire front page of a newspaper...