Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's Parliamentary year is the one on which the Chancellor of the Exchequer "opens" his Budget in the House of Commons, because ever since 1917 Britons, great and small, though ruled for the most part by Conservatives, have paid out staggering income taxes. Outstanding British taxpayers like Lord Leverhulme (soap), Lord Wakefield (oil), Joseph Rank (flour & shipping) and Lord Nuffield (motors) are relieved of as much as 66% of their incomes by the Government, and it was these who faced the 1937 Budget with most fear and trembling...
...emolument has varied with the years (Tennyson's pay was cut by three-quarters) most royal rhymesters have risen to the occasion. Outstanding exception was Wordsworth, who never produced a line to order because the spirit never moved him at the right moment. One of the conscientious was Lord Tennyson who, according to Carlyle, sat "on a dungheap amid innumerable dead dogs" (i.e., buried himself in Homer and Virgil) during the early years of his laureateship, but later rallied sufficiently to produce such gems as The Charge of the Light Brigade...
Turning savagely on Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty he snapped: "One must remember that the First Lord of the Admiralty is the man who trailed the honor of this country in the dust over Ethiopia. He has a special habit of being friendly with pirates...
Added Laborite Ernest Thurtle: "Is the First Lord aware that the entire British Fleet is now toasting Potato Jones...
...alumni luncheon in Andover Hall, the Rev. Augustus M. Lord of Providence, R. I. will speak for the class of 1887; the Rev. George Emerson Cary of Bradford, for the Class of 1912; the Rev. Herbert R. Smith of South Weymouth for the class of 1937; and Acting Dean Julius S. Bixler for the Divinity School...