Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope no future Foreign Secretary will ever be put in the position in which I found myself," said the First Lord last week at Edinburgh. "That state of affairs must never occur again!" To remedy it the Admiralty will build more warships, Sir Samuel said, and went on to announce momentously that the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defense, appointed to probe the "bombers v. battle ships" controversy, has now unanimously recommended against the substitution of fighting aircraft for British capital ships. "When the country hears more of the question," summed up Sir Samuel, "there will...
...Archbishop of York stand for the sanctity of the home against the power of the King. They were placed in a position in which they had to choose between their conscience and expediency. It is to their credit that they had the courage to witness to our Lord's command...
...caroled Miss Lawrence on the Aquitania. "I may not be able to get to the Coronation if I get a suitable Hollywood offer, but if I miss the Coronation I am sure the King will understand ! Of course I'm joking." The perfect strategy was adopted by Lord and Lady Tennyson who, long after their ship arrived in Manhattan last week, remained "sleeping" in their cabin until there was no longer any reporter around...
Meanwhile in London, sputtering Soviet Counsellor Samuel Cahan and silk-hatted Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky were blustering at Lord Plymouth in the Foreign Office "demands": 1) that the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain be again convened and 2) that Britain and France "blockade" Portugal to prevent that country-which does not recognize the Soviet Union-from transshipping arms to the Spanish Whites. The exceedingly blue-blooded and frosty Earl of Plymouth, an Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, placed the tips of his white fingers together and murmured absolute refusal...
...which may some day work. Its formulators invited all Christendom to accept: " 1) the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as revealed Word of God; 2) the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian Faith; 3) the two Sacraments -Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, ministered with un failing use of Christ's words of institution, and of the elements ordained by Him; 4) The Historic Episcopate locally adapted to the varying needs of the nations and peoples...