Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five hours Senator Bilbo ranted, repeated verbatim a lengthy tirade he recently mailed to all Senators, in which the Judge was compared unfavorably to Lord Chancellor Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes. Those few Senators who stuck it out paid little attention. In cloakrooms they had previously settled the matter. To aid their popular colleague, Mississippi's senior Senator Pat Harrison, who was backing the nomination, to show "The Man" Bilbo that neophyte Senators should not make nuisances of themselves on the floor, they swamped (59-to-4) his motion to recommit the nomination to committee, confirmed Judge Holmes...
...throng of 20,000 at Frankfurt-am-Main. "I ask the German people, 'Art Thou, Oh German people, in favor of burying the hatchet with France?' and they reply 'Yes.' And I ask, 'Dost Thou, Oh German people, desire that we should attempt to lord it over or suppress France?' and they answer 'No.' And I am sure that the majority of the French people feel the same way about the German people...
Died. John Scott Haldane, 76, famed physiologist and physicist, brother of the late Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane (onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), father of London University's celebrated Author-Biochemist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane; of pneumonia; in Oxford. A confirmed hater of materialism, he called it "nothing better than a superstition...
...fruitful corner of the Lord's vineyard is rich old Trinity Parish, which embraces eight Episcopal churches in Manhattan. Trinity Church gave the Diocese of New York its present Bishop, Rt. Rev. William Thomas Manning. Trinity's Chapel of the Intercession provided Bishop Manning's cathedral with its present Dean Milo Hudson Gates. Last week another Trinity man, Rev. Dr. Wallace John Gardner, vicar of the Chapel, was offered advancement. The Diocese of New Jersey (34,567 communicants) elected him Bishop Coadjutor...
...busy as ants', and no noisier, they have never mounted a soapbox nor slapped a policeman in their lives. Bernard Shaw was the wisecracking Fabian whip; the Webbs were the wheel horses. Climax to their plodding career came in 1929, when the Labor Government made Sidney Webb Lord Passfield, put him in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Colonies & Dominions. Though the Webbs are now in their seventies they cannot break the working habits of a lifetime. With aged humor they half apologize for still keeping at it: "The question will arise in some quarters...