Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whistling cheerily as if to show his indifference to the rain that beat a tattoo on his roof -like drumming hoofs, he thought. King George of England sat staring politely into the same rain from a box at a race track. In a leather chair in Berkeley Square, London, Lord Woolavington (once Sir James Buchanan) regarded the lengthening silver ash of his cigar, and though separated from each other by space and, apparently by opposing interests, the fortunes of these three gentlemen were interwoven inextricably. They, of all the gentlemen of England, were most concerned in the 143rd English Derby...
...none of these. The horse that swept under the barrier as smoothly as a cob out for its morning canter, five lengths ahead of Lancegay, which ran second, was a horse owned by James Buchanan† (now Lord Woolavington), who sat alone with his cigar at Berkeley Square. It was a horse upon which Robert Bishop,** insurance clerk, held the winning ticket in the Calcutta Sweepstakes worth $600,000.‡ It was a horse for which King George of England politely rose to cheer. It was Coronach...
...Bishop said he was "too busy to go to horse races." The Derby was an old story to Lord Woolavington; his Captain Cuttle...
...advertising business it was a big event when last week the firm of Lord & Thomas (Chicago, Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London) merged with that of Thomas F. Logan Inc. (Manhattan) to form the firm of Lord & Thomas and Logan. It was a wedding of one of the oldest members of the Fifth Estate with one of the youngest; of the popularizer of many famed household commodities with the interpreter of many huge public service and transportation corporations. It was the formation of one of the largest advertising concerns in the world* and the coalition of two perfect representatives...
...Lord & Thomas learned that Mr. Douglas Smith of Chicago, having made one fortune out of patent medicines, was about to outdo himself with a new toothpaste. Lord & Thomas straightway learned all that there was to know in fact and theory, about the gritty white ooze that Mr. Smith's chemists had carefully concocted, and all that there was to know about the toothpaste market-the best distribution areas, geographic and economic. Then Lord & Thomas prepared messages to the public about Mr. Smith's toothpaste and laid before Mr. Smith a program as to where these messages should...