Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week which was trying to many British businessmen (see col. 3), the nation as a whole was cheered to have its faith in the British Navy renewed by Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, who, as First Lord of the British Admiralty, has been increasingly often mentioned as one of two or three statesmen with a real chance of becoming Prime Minister. Sir Samuel would certainly know, reasons the average Englishman, whether there is any validity in the rumors that Air Power has now outmoded Sea Power. This onetime Air Minister was Foreign Secretary when Benito Mussolini faced down British ships...
This year's award for torchbearer of righteousness goes by unanimous vote to the President of Princeton, who by an encyclical enclosed football tickets hopes to banish Bacchus from the Palmer Stadium. Through collaboration with the Bible and Lord Chesterfield President Dodds arrived at the scholarly conclusion that drinking at football games is poor manners. It follows that sobriety is laudable. So were the Ten Commandments and Wilson's Fourteen Points, but even the most inspired professor would think twice before attempting to enforce them...
...Totteridge, Hertfordshire, a burglar raided the house of roly-poly Lord Chief Justice Baron Hewart, walked off with worthless papers. Three days later the burglar returned to filch the Lord Chief Justice's typewriter...
...group were grease-stained, speedway-trained U. S. professionals whose big, fast cars lacked the transmissions and brakes needed for road racing. In the other group were seasoned road racers like Italy's Count Antonio Brivio and Tazio Nuvolari, England's Hon. Brian Lewis and Lord Howe. For their cars, designed for up-&-downhill, cross-country racing, level curves were a minor problem...
...building up bogus socialites, the Raceway's energetic press agents betrayed their lack of practice in dealing with real ones by describing Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, onetime Member of Parliament and Aide-de-camp to the late George V, with redundant emphasis, as "Lord" Earl Howe. Inheritor of a fabulous for tune for which a legal dispute that is still going on was sufficiently sensational a century ago to inspire Charles Dickens to write Bleak House, the 52-year-old Earl, whose stable of racing cars is Europe's most elaborate, failed to make...