Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord, how he would...
England thus finds itself in a dilemma which is clearly expressed by the two schools of thought that have been seeking to gain Mr. Baldwin's ear. One group headed by Viscount Cecil insists upon a stronger League as the only means of peace, while others under Lord Lothian see safety in a League that doesn't force anybody...
Despite Dr. Sondern's attempted interruptions, Lord Horder talked about practically every topic which came to his mind or the minds of the ship reporters. Someone asked him about lengthening human life. Lord Horder: "Don't people live long enough? How to live more happily would be rather more to the point. People are living longer. Every year their expectation of life at any given age is increasing. But what is the use of living longer if we are not happy with economic conditions what they are and the infernal noise of cities, and with machinery we have...
...years "Tommy" Horder has been doctoring the British Royal Family. Among his other patients: Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, Actress Elisabeth Bergner, Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. Lord Horder's usual consultation fee is $25. He charged $5,000 to testify to the sanity of Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, eccentric millionairess who repeatedly has tried to help finance British air defense. His offices are in Harley Street...
Knighted in 1918 and raised to the peerage in 1923, Lord Horder is Senior Physician to London's Great St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He is president of Britain's National Birth Control Association, president of the Voluntary Sterilization Society, president of the Council for the Disposition of the Dead, vice president of the Cremation Society. He is chairman of the Anti-Noise League and, with George Bernard Shaw and Herbert George Wells, belongs to the smell Society which seeks to suppress London's stinks. He dislikes health faddists, Nazis and cranks who denounce beer and white...