Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mentioned not only Mrs. Simpson but Mr. Simpson, too. The second last week omitted Mr. Simpson altogether, announced a dinner at York House in St. James's Palace at which ate His Majesty and Mrs. Simpson, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, the First Lord of the Admiralty and Lady Maud Hoare, Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill and Lord and Lady Willingdon, the former Viceroy and Vicereine of India...
...Tatarescu that despite all appearances Rumania could rely upon Britain as being basically true to her incessant promises to support "Collective Security." Instead, last week at Montreux, the British delegation stickled for what they called their "belligerent rights" in the Dardanelles, although the French and Greeks sharply reminded British Lord Stanley that the Briand-Kellogg-Pact-Renouncing-War-As-an Instrument-of-National-Policy "terminated belligerent rights." In the middle of a heated row tall Dr. Titulescu stalked in, denounced the British for "blowing now hot now cold" and rushed off to catch the next train for Bucharest "to calm...
...Lords: ¶ Subjected the present National Government to its first defeat in the House of Lords by adopting, 32-to-29, a trivial amendment to the Education Bill opposed by His Majesty's Government but sponsored by the Most Reverend Father Cosmo Gordon Lang. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
Canal would ultimately devolve upon Egypt. Said Egypt's Premier, after receiving Sir Miles: ''Everything is going well." Few weeks ago the treaty negotiations were "nearly wrecked," according to Egyptian statesmen, by British Cabinet demands made at the insistence of the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, onetime British War Minister. These "extreme and humiliating demands on Egypt," a member of Premier Nahas' entourage beamed last week, "the British have now dropped...
Twice during the past three weeks, newshawks thought there was personal significance in papal remarks. When he elevated Librarians Giovanni Mercati and Eugène Tisserant to the cardinalate (TIME, June 22), the Pope said: "We invite the Catholic faithful to pray that the Lord permit us, so long as life lasts, to pass it in unceasing, fruitful work. . . ." Scanning plans for improvements to St. Peter's Square, he remarked: "When a man is 80 years old, he cannot make too far-distant dates." Last fortnight, on the eve of the feast of St. Peter, Pius XI, in accordance...