Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With only a fortnight to go before Coronation, Lord Amherst's Sovereign and his consort last week took a state voyage down the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich, famed for fried whitebait and the o° meridian. Queen Elizabeth wore fawn, King George the tight tail coat of an Admiral of the Fleet. Ocean liners, tramps and tugs were aflutter with bunting, and crowds stood six deep along the quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last...
Near Stooping Oak, Tenn., on the Cumberland Plateau, newshawks last month found a tall, gaunt, 45-year-old named Jackson Whitlow who was daily growing gaunter from a fast to which he said the Lord had called him early in March. His face blotched from his "stomach trouble," Jackson Whitlow daily hoed the vegetable patch behind his cabin, seemed to have no plans beyond continuing his fast, accepting at its end some earthly bounty which the Lord had in mind...
Telling how he had left the Separate Baptists to deal directly with God. Jackson Whitlow said: "I prayed and said I would do whatever the Lord told me. He told me to sell my pigs and goods and give the money to the poor, and I did. Then He called on me to fast, but He didn't say why. The day after I started in, I took a little potato soup without any grease. That learned me my lesson. I nearly died, it made me so sick. That was just the Lord punishing me for my disobedience...
...what he said was the Devil's voice "temptin' me on every hand," thought he heard God telling him to "take a little wine for thy stomach's sake." His wife scurried out for elderberry wine, fed him a few spoonfuls. A second message from the Lord recommended orange juice. Finally, said Jackson Whitlow, the Lord prescribed squirrel soup and beef tea, which his doctor approved and supplemented with whey and more orange juice. Said Jackson Whitlow: "The Lord's divine purpose has not been revealed to me yet, but it will be before long...
Married. Pauline van der Voort Dresser Rogers, 47, relict of Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Walter Hoving, 41, her fourth husband, president of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor department store; in Manhattan...