Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conservative Members (bursting into cheers en masse) : "Shame on the Laborites! Baldwin for Britons! Silence! Order! Hurrah! . . ." Joseph Batey (Laborite, rising to filibuster against First Lord of the Admiralty Bridgeman) : "I will not permit the First Lord to speak! I will shout down any man who attempts to speak for this bill...
...Speaker: "I have called on the First Lord of the Admiralty...
Before bluff, hearty Countryman King resigned as Premier, he sought Lord Byng and advised the dissolution of Parliament, which would have caused the election to be held under Liberal auspices. The Governor General refused somewhat peremptorily to order dissolution and Premier King resigned forthwith. On the contrary, when suave, aristocratic, moneyed Premier Meighen approached Baron Byng with a request for dissolution last week it was granted instanter -thereby putting the electoral machinery in the hands of Conservatives. Though Lord Byng acted within his legal rights, custom virtually obligated him to follow the original "advice" of Premier King. Unquestionably the efforts...
...perfect symbol of food for the starving soul, bought it for $500. Neither scribe nor buyer knew that in England three and a half centuries ago one Peter Balesius (1547-1610) had been even more skilled in micrography, had written within the circle of an English penny the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Decalogue, two short prayers in Latin, his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the Queen (Elizabeth). Nor did any of these know that such skill in forming minute letters is often a sign of nervous disease...
...Lords- ¶Voted down 125 to 80, Lord Astor's perennially revamped bill to seat peeresses in the House of Lords. Last year this measure was defeated by only two votes. Last week many a peeress, seated in the visitors' gallery, blushed, during debate upon the bill, at the ribald remarks of many a peer...