Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harkened as Lord Middleton declared: "It is midwinter madness for the Government to have cut the Army 234,500 men from its pre-War strength...
...Adjourned until Feb. 8, after hearing the King's speech proroguing Parliament read by Viscount Cave, the Lord High Chancellor and Speaker of the House of Lords. For the first time in history His Majesty's speech referred to "my Ministers from the Dominions" instead of "my Ministers," thus confirming the principle laid down at the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) that the mother country and the Dominions are on a completely equivalent mutual status...
Since he bought his first ship in 1889 Owen Cosby Philipps, now Lord Kylsant, has pioneered in everything that would get ships faster across the damp places and keep their human cargoes warm and dry, and their cargoes of foodstuffs dry and cold. He pushed the adoption of a twin propeller drive. He was ahead with refrigerator cargo ships, reaping millions from frozen Argentine beef. All his life he could have said with Kipling's shipmaster of his competitors: They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind, And I left 'em sweating...
...present Lord Kylsant is leaving his competitors behind with a fleet of some 50 motors ships under his control, the largest in the world. Naturally his speech last week turned to the motor ship; the ship with an engine running by explosions like those in an automobile motor, instead of by the push of expanding steam as in a locomotive...
Engineers have long ago proved theoretically and by individual test the superiority of the motor ship; but the old salts of the sea are still suspicious, as they were once of steam. "Sails," they said, "are safer than expanding steam." "Steam," they say, "is safer than exploding oil." Lord Kylsant, director of some 488 steamships and some 50 motor ships, said last week : "The experience of ship owners who have operated motor vessels is . . . contrary to expectation . . . that they are both reliable and dependable . . . cheaper to run . . . can carry larger cargoes. . . . Our motor ships have covered 7,500,000 miles...