Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schools. Dean Everett W. Lord, for instance, of the business college at Boston University, was back at his desk after visiting Porto Rico to establish there the first of a chain of schools in business administration which Boston University proposes to extend to many a foreign land...
When the owner of a newspaper thus expresses himself one of three things is sure to happen: the owner will in his next utterance dismiss the editor, or the editor will buy out the owner, or the editor will resign. When Lord Rothermere in August made the quoted statement readers of the London Daily Mail waited to see how Editor Thomas Marlowe would react; last week they saw. Editor Marlowe resigned...
...London Times, in one of the grave laudatory editorials which that paper devotes to men of affairs whose opinions it has begun to suspect and whose terms of usefulness it believes to be over, last week paid tribute to Thomas Marlowe's "sturdy independence." Neither the Times nor Lord Rothermere could pay tribute to his discretion. The opinions which the peer so emphatically disclaimed touched on England's debt to the U. Su For several days Thomas Marlowe featured what he called "Cold Facts on British Debits," There was a cartoon of Uncle Sam as Uncle Shylock. There...
...CHARWOMAN'S SHADOW -Lord Dunsany-Putnam...
...slovenliest man in all Britain writes some of its loveliest prose. Lord Dunsany takes childish pride in the sag of his coat and the splay of his collar, what time he gets lost on a golden road to nowhere, beholding faery sights. Shadows are among his specialties. For The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) he invented a whole zone of twilight, where unicorns browsed and cabbage-roots were thunderbolts. Now he writes of a crone, cheated of her shadow by a magician of old Spain, and of a romantic worldling who came to the magician's wood...