Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word "hitler" to signify lying? Why not use "balfour"? . . . Lord Balfour lied to both his friends, the Jews and the Arabs, promising to each what he could not give to both and what he gave to neither. With the British a lie becomes a terminological inexactitude which is praised by the world as diplomacy of a high order...
...last thing I would want to do would be to defend the action of the Soviet Government at the particular time at which they took it," said Lord Halifax, "but it is right to remember two things...
...greatest living British philanthropist and one of the Empire's greatest armorers is William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield. Not quite bold enough to attack Lord Nuffield directly as a profiteer, Laborite Stokes made allegations in the House of Commons about two firms, which he called "A" and "B," bidders as subcontractors to Nuffield Mechanisations & Aero...
Meanwhile, His Excellency Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, although having his troubles with Mohandas K. Gandhi's Indian National Congress party which last week began a campaign of noncooperation and threatened one of civil disobedience, was swamped with 300 other princely protestations of loyalty and extravagant promises of support delivered in person or by telegraph to New Delhi. > The 60-year-old Maharaja of Bikaner (19 guns), also a lieutenant general, who has fought for his King-Emperor on three continents (China, Egypt, France), enlarged Britain's war chest by a personal gift...
Cooper. Into action on the U. S. front went Alfred Duff Cooper, the Conservative statesman who last year resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest to Prime Minister Chamberlain's "surrender" at Munich. He arrived in Manhattan with his beauteous actress wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, to tour the land and deliver 40 lectures (for a "very substantial fee," his agent said...