Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment signed by His Majesty Edward VIII, and saved up for last week's Jubilee Durbar, creating Hyderabad's Crown Prince Azam Jah additionally Prince of Berar. Thus officially ended was the long dispute over Berar which was almost taken away from Hyderabad by domineering Viceroy Lord Curzon. Berar is about the size of Switzerland, immensely valuable because its peculiar soil produces the finest cotton which can be grown in India...
...English do when they are too overwhelmed with emotion to manage more than a shy triviality. Said Mary to Edward: "Well, you do look fit." The onetime King-Emperor, apparently on the verge of tears, could say nothing at first as he and the Princess Royal gripped hands, while Lord Harewood discreetly fell into conversation with photographers. By next day Edward VIII seemed in high spirits, showed his sister & brother-in-law assiduously through the miles-long corridors of the late Emperor Franz Josef's Schonbrunn Palace. In its theatre a party of giggling girls began-throwing kisses...
...settle down in three large blotches with a total area today of perhaps 80,000 sq. mi. Last week this Red State was spectacularly absorbing many soldiers once commanded by Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, recently kidnapper of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.) and war lord of Manchuria until the Japanese drove him out (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Worse still, last week the deserters of the Young Marshal's standard were killing their officers, as many of these were not so eager as their...
Crowned Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was pretty Jessie Wing Janvier, daughter of Judge George Janvier of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, previously picked as Carnival Queen of the Twelfth Night Revelers and the Elves of Oberon. Her consort, Rex, Lord of Misrule, was President Albert Barnet Paterson of New Orleans Public Service...
...Among the abundant fruits of salvation which we anticipate from your Congress and for which we pray, there is one hope of which we will make mention, the one which your session had particularly in view: It is our hope, namely, that from a more ardent love of our Lord in the august sacrament of the altar and from more frequent communion with him there may come a daily increase of devotion to missions and enterprise for the promotion of missionary activity. For it is from that very source that light is given our minds, ardor to our souls...