Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State to act for George V as was done during his 1928-29 illness), the nation and the world watched ever more intently Their Majesties' eldest son. At Sandringham the Clerk of the Privy Council, Sir Maurice Hankey, handed the order establishing the Council of State to Lord Dawson of Penn. The great doctor, bending over the King's bed, supported the right hand as it weakly scrawled for the last time "George...
...gleaming on their tail coats above their velvet knee breeches, silk stockings and glistening pumps. A little later His Majesty was found to be beyond hope. With streaming eyes, the Queen and her sons stood at the bedside as George V expired in coma. Turning to the eldest son, Lord Dawson of Penn solemnly made the historic change known. "Your Majesty," he said, "your father is dead...
...Crown to answer on Judgment Day why there was never created Sir Rudyard Kipling or Lord Kipling? To his grave without a ribbon to stick in his coat or a peerage which would have died with him, the Empire sent last week a man whom an Empire poll even now would doubtless choose as the supreme poet of Empire...
...going to be a great meeting although the Devil has sent ice and snow to try to thwart the Christians." So when Evangelist Wright brought his exhortations to a shouting climax, pale, pious Shirley Tapp was among the first to hasten up to the altar, burst into prayer. "Oh, Lord," cried she, "I will always praise You and never be afraid to bear Your name!" Then & there she collapsed...
When the Press discovered Shirley Tapp three days later, she was still on the sofa, her hair in two neat braids, her eyes closed, her body relaxed, her face expressionless. Father Tapp had explanations ready. His daughter, he declared, was "slain of the Lord." "She was saved from the sins she had committed," said old Mr. Tapp confidently, "but the sinful nature remained. Now that nature has died and her present condition occurs." He summed up: "Shirley is suffering for the whole world." Declared Mrs. Tapp: "This sort of thing is not uncommon among us. But we are mighty proud...