Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches stated that Sir Robert had reckoned as negligible Lord Birkenhead's reputed proclivities for gaming tables, toddies and toasts of every kind. The rich shipowner was envisioned by many of his intimates as anxious to testify to his long intimacy with the potent statesman by bequeathing Wealth to Power. All Britain was a-tiptoe when the will was probated at Jersey, England, late in the week. Sir Robert left his entire fortune to his widow...
...friends confusedly about-faced, recalled that Sir Robert used to dye his beard, remembered that Lord Birkenhead once called him "the only genuine dye-hard," advanced the press-trumpeted sensationalism that Sir Robert "made the Earl of Birkenhead pay £7,000,000 for a jest...
Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," rumored ally of Chang Hsueh-liang in capturing Peking, did not enter the city last week. The original garrison, adherent to the "Christian" Super -Tuchun, Feng Yu-hsiang, continued in headlong flight to Kalgan, hotly pursued...
...Ames has simplified his task by employing players that are for the most part widely unknown. All of them are good and some of them are extraordinary. Ernest Lawford, the only one of whom most people have heard, is conspicuously excellent as the susceptible Lord Chancellor with the pleasant occupation?...
...Winside, Neb., Albert Strate, a farmer, was converted to Christianity. The Lord, he declared, had made him impregnable to hurt. To prove this statement he swallowed a spoonful of strychnine. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide...