Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mention in the current issue of TIME [Feb. 14] regarding the arrival in this country of Lord Leverhulme, English soap magnate, recalls an amusing incident at the time the first Lord Leverhulme, then but plain W. H. Lever, made his debut in British politics...
TIME'S Religion editor's memory was rusty and his researcher was careless when one wrote and the other passed the statement that Lord Hugh Cecil has a brother who is Bishop of Exeter [TIME, Feb. 21]. The Bishop-Lord William-died almost two years...
...education it gives. Nothing is more contrary to Mr. Lake's desires than a speedy veneer of culture, followed by a purely vocational course. A two-year university degree comes close to being a contradiction of terms. President Lowell is reported as saying that "In sixty years the Lord can make an oak, but the best He can do in six months is a pumpkin...
...Deal No. 2. Cautiously testing British public opinion, as one inches for ward on thin ice, Neville Chamberlain an nounced that "temporarily" the new Foreign Secretary would be Viscount Halifax. Pro-German but High-Church and idealistic, Lord Halifax-who "sees the in scrutable hand of Divine Providence at work almost everywhere," even in Germany and Italy-was Mr. Chamberlain's personal envoy last November to Herr Hitler. But His Majesty's Government this week obviously were thinking almost exclusively about Rome...
...died of the same disease (endocarditis) as Lord Northcliffe, famed British publisher for whom he had a lifelong admiration. As a memorial to Briton Hadden, Editor Luce and his many other friends erected a handsome Gothic building on the Yale campus to house the Yale Daily News, of which he had been editor eight years before...