Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Credit Premier William Aberhart in the next province, he has lost his self-assumed rank of "Canada's Greatest Money Reformer." Last winter he invited every celebrity he could think of to Vancouver's two-month celebration, hoped for President Roosevelt. One invitation reached London's Lord Mayor Sir Percy Vincent, a retired millinery manufacturer who, at 68, has little to do. To Vancouver's astonishment, London's 613th Lord Mayor accepted the invitation, promised to bring with him the Lord Mayor's whole retinue, lord sheriff, macebearer, sword-bearer and city marshal. Last...
Possessively proud of their London Lord Mayor, Vancouverites reluctantly granted Toronto's request for a loan of him next month. But when Seattle in the U. S. asked for the London Lord Mayor, the Vancouver Sim shrieked: "No, no, a thousand times no! The nerve of them! The colossal gall! The effrontery of it. Seattle actually wants Vancouver to send the Lord Mayor of London down there ... so they can have a look at him without coming up to Vancouver...
...neighbors not realize that the Lord Mayor of London is something to see? Do they not realize that he is a big part of our show...
...others unable to get off weekends. They, too, spent most of their time in silence, save during religious observances, meals, conversations with those in charge of the retreat. Their day began with a rising bell at 7 a. m. A prefect awakened each with "Let us bless the Lord," to which the correct reply was: "And give thanks to God." Followed Angelus, meditation, Mass, prayers and breakfast. At this and other meals, excellently cooked and served by nine buxom German nuns, a meditation reader read briefly. When he exclaimed "Prosit!" general conversation was in order...
...celebrities are numerous and strange. They include the Duke of Kent, Victoria's father; her beloved governess, the Baroness Lehzen; the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William; Lord Melbourne, whose wife had been Caroline Lamb, Byron's widely-publicized mistress; King Leopold of Belgium, who thought he could control England through his influence with Victoria and the Prince Consort; Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Tennyson, George...