Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark of an Irish moon, last week, "soldiers" of the irregular "Irish Republican (Sinn Fein) Army" cut with a twang many a telegraph wire and thereafter indulged in ugly rioting near military barracks in five Irish Free State counties. . . . Next day Mary McSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork who in 1920 committed suicide by hungerstriking, made known that these riots had been staged by her Sinn Fein associates as an awful warning to the Dail Eireann. The Dail convened last week with the Sinn Fein Deputies absenting themselves as usual...
...famed racehorse Sir Galahad III which beat the internationally famed Epinard ("Spinach"), snapped up for ?75,000 ($364,950) last week the residence of the Dowager Baroness Michelham at 20 Arlington Street, an Augustan thoroughfare sacred until now to the mansions of peers (TIME, Nov. 22). Since the late Lord Michelham's art treasures (Gainsboroughs, Raeburns, Romneys, Lawrences) are likewise to be sold, there hurried to view them last week, at historic "No. 20," Her Majesty Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain, who is visiting her cousin, the King Emperor. Soon Commoner Cohn will wreck his new-bought house-once...
...Baroness Michelham, created a sensation by announcing that her residence at 20 Arlington Street is for sale. . . . Should some oleagenous nouveau riche purchase historic "Number 20" he will have as neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount and Baron Wimborne (onetime [1915-18] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland); Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Baron Dundas (onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious...
...from Brooklyn one day, I met Paul Rivenbark, and buying him a drink we became friends, but one day he went away and later when I met him he invited me to go to church. . . . The only man I knew there was Frank Nogle, and he testified that the Lord Jesus had kept him since August...
...have been so shorn of their power that they are little more than figureheads in all matters of local government the Filipinos are in complete control. As a matter of fact the Filipino legislature has usurped a large measure of the powers assigned by law to the American executive. Lord Northcliffe pointed out that the Filipinos enjoy a greater measure of liberty than even the various American states...