Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most practicable means of thwarting the match, proceedings by the Attorney General to see whether Mrs. Simpson can be legally blocked from obtaining her final decree of divorce April 27, thus forcing her in England to remain the wife of Mr. Simpson. Sir Claud Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor was reported to have advised the Cabinet that legally the King cannot marry Mrs. Simpson without the Government's consent. The New York Times credited the highly exasperated King-Emperor with having told his Prime Minister something to this effect: "I am now happy for the first time...
...Duke, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, momentarily put out of mind his beauteous and horsy fiancee, the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, 20 (TIME, Nov. 30), was eased by his valet into the regalia of Earl Marshal (see cut), and took his place with the Lord Chief Justice of England for the adjudication of claims made by personages of the nobility & gentry to be of service to No. 1 Eligible Bachelor Edward VIII during his Coronation...
...right to carry the King's golden spurs was refused to Lord Hastings' father by the Court of Claims of the Duke of Norfolk's father at the time of the Coronation of George V. The Hastings family have chafed at this ever since (25 years), and last week they were out in full force to press their claim with two hours of judicial argument backed up by a diagram three feet square. To the visibly great satisfaction of the House of Hastings, the Court of Claims finally decided that Lord Hastings is one of three peers...
...boyhood promise, Blake takes the desperate chance of using his semaphore to flash news of a naval victory which has not happened. The ruse delays the admiralty's plan until Nelson, with his full fleet at his command, has won gloriously and died at Trafalgar. Wounded by jealous Lord Stacy-whose wife is now ready to divorce him-Blake recuperates in time to see his old friend's catafalque...
Lockhart made his sentimental journey a pretty stately affair. He expected trouble about a leave of absence from his boss, Lord Beaverbrook. But that Napoleonic publisher, who had read Lockhart's account of his youthful indiscretion with Amai, betrayed that hushed sentimentality that seems as much a British characteristic as muddling through. "I suppose," he wrote, "that you are going in search of the little wooden shoes." This referred to Lockhart's description of his separation from Amai, when his last glimpse had been of her little wooden shoes outside his bungalow. So, in 1935, in company with...