Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Appropriations Committee reported the biggest Navy supply bill in peacetime history, including authorization to spend upward of $102,000,000 to build two new battleships in case any other signatory of the London Naval Treaty or the new 1936 treaty did so.* Same day in London the First Lord of the Admiralty informed Parliament that His Majesty's Government would this year begin to increase its fleet by 38 new war craft, including two battleships...
...Country Beyond (Twentieth Century-Fox) is a James Oliver Curwood story containing a great deal of snow and a large St. Bernard dog named Buck, which has appeared in Call of the Wild and Little Lord Fauntleroy. More restful to the eye & ear than most cinemanimals, easy-going Buck is antisocial to the point of declining to take sides between his mistress (Rochelle Hudson) and a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (Robert Kent) who has her in custody because she helped her father escape after being caught with stolen furs. When the girl endeavors to mush off through the snow, Buck...
Present Keeper of the Privy Purse is George V's old friend and private secretary, Lord Wigram, who will presently be replaced by one of the new King's men, probably Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey...
Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount Monsell of Evesham, rose casually one day last week in the House of Commons and fired what sounded like the starting gun of a gigantic world naval race. Ostensibly he was merely asking the Commons to vote an additional $51,500,000 for 1936 naval expenditures to supplement the $345,000,000 already provided in the Budget. Sobering naval news went with the request...
...Lord, how he wolde hoppe...