Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked like a full-size International Conference of the sort he loved so well as British Prime Minister. Once more, and perhaps for the last time, the imposing Locarno Room of the Foreign Office echoed to his noble Scottish burr. Mr. MacDonald today holds the British Cabinet sinecure of Lord President of the Council at $10,000 yearly, is slated to be raised to the peerage soon and retire on a pension of $10,000. Severe eye trouble caused him to strain with visible pain last week as he read a gracious speech void of importance-in the true sense...
...professor of law, surveys the conflicts of law during the last 50 years. Dean Emeritus of Northwestern University's Law School, John Henry Wigmore, 75, lightly recalls his early assignment to develop the Recent Cases and Notes departments. His prize Note, he says, was this quotation of Henry Lord Brougham in an 1846 British Parliamentary report on legal education...
...newsprint prices were increased slightly for 1937 contracts but the first real boost did not come until a fortnight ago when International announced a new price of $50 for 1938. A score of U. S. and Canadian newsprint makers promptly followed suit, while London's Lord Rothermere, a papermaking publisher, dispatched this cryptic cable to the Toronto Financial Post...
Oldest son of an eccentric, forcibly retired Irish colonel who roamed over Europe for 30 years, Burton was seldom in school, toyed with his tutors by sitting on them or putting bullets through their hats. Intended for the Church, he arrived at Oxford not knowing the Lord's Prayer, studied Arabic but not much else. When the news reached England that 13,000 British troops had been slaughtered in the Afghan Revolt, Burton packed up and went to India. Rapidly promoted to No. 1 secret agent under the great colonizer Napier, Burton turned in a too-realistic report...
...Fellows are Orville T. Bailey, of Boston; James G. Baker, of Shelbyville, Kentucky; Albert B. Lord, of Cambridge, Mass.; Reed C. Rollins, of Lyman, Wyoming; and Paul A. Samuelson, of Chicago...