Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President was closeted for three hours with General H. M. Lord, Director of the Bureau of the Budget. In his budget speech last June, Mr. Coolidge had announced his determination to keep the next fiscal year appropriations at $3,200,000,000. Due chiefly to subsequent pension legislation, he was unable last week to cut the estimate below $3,270,000,000 even after blue-penciling $100,000,000 worth of proposals. The amount of the budget allowed for prohibition enforcement will be well over $30,000,000, last year's amount...
...darling, Spouse Langley. His words flowed like a dream in the Vale of Tempe: "I am supremely happy. Even these grey prison walls seem to shine with the lustre of our beloved Cumberland and Blue Ridge. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. May He bless and keep always the good men and women and all our children of the Kentucky Mountains. My love and greetings to the first Congresswoman of the old commonwealth." There was joy in the Langley home in Pikeville. A wide-eyed, little girl and a strapping, handsome-though-freckled...
...LORD...
...such vivid fashions as green leather coats, more admirable than his ramrod-backed great-grandpapa, creator of that appalling garment, the "Prince Albert?" Prince Consort Albert, needless to relate, deserved well of Science by his indefatigable championship of the Great Exposition of 1851 against the opposition of both the Lords and Commons, and his employment of its surplus profit of ?150,000 to found the present Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. Throughout his life he exhibited a passion for developing British industry which vented itself even upon such details as persuading individual crockery makers to improve the design...
...psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece of the late Lord Tennyson, has sailed many an ocean between spells of being a London literary celebrity and Crown servant...