Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...injury to Lord at Annapolis, the Crimson first-sacker would be opposing his brother, who plays second base for the Down-Easterners. To bin, a veteran of last year's campaign will hold down first for the University today, and is likely to do so for three weeks more at least, while Lord's leg injury is mending...
...Fascist Government thus guarded the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the Irish peer, Lord Ashbourne, because she is known to have been insane since childhood and it was feared that she might attempt suicide, as she did last year in a moment of religious excitement...
Meanwhile Miss Gibson's large deposits at an English bank in Rome were sequestered according to Italian law. Late in the week Lord Ashbourne arrived at Rome from Dublin, and retained Deputy Enrico Ferri, "the Italian Clarence Darrow," to defend his sister...
...felt obliged to discuss affairs of state all through her singing; Oscar Wilde, the last time she saw him a "tall, shabby man, his collar turned up to his neck," who stopped her on a Paris street to ask for money; Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Anton Rubinstein, Lord Northcliffe, Jean de Reszke, Nellie Melba...
...succeed the late Hugh Chisholm (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, MILESTONES) as editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica, that compendium's directors last week-largely at the instance of Americans in their number-appointed James Louis Garvin, the man designated by the late Lord Northcliffe as "greatest living journalist." Since 1908, Journalist Garvin had edited the London Observer (Sunday), being retained by the present owner (Viscount Astor) after the death of Lord Northcliffe, the founder...