Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faultless politeness constrained Admiral Nagano merely to tell journalists that he had written a letter withdrawing Japan from the Conference at 6 p. m. This letter was not delivered to the British Admiralty until about midnight, by which time the Naval Conference had most enjoyably dined & wined with the Lord Mayor of London and the Prince of Wales...
...careful and entirely liquid diet was prescribed by the Royal physicians, of whom Lord Dawson of Penn is the first doctor ever created a peer. Again working with him last week to save George's life with oxygen and every artifice known to science was Nurse Black...
...world press was handled with great tact by Lord Wigham, the King's Private Secretary of many years. Warm, homely details were not stifled. For example, the King, when broth and gruel palled, was permitted to have a few drops of warm brandy "as a treat...
...Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Account of an
engineering trip through northern Venezuela, by the author of
Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME, March 25), who was killed last July in
an airplane crash in Switzerland. ADVENTURES IN REPUTATION - Wilbur
Cortez Abbott-Harvard University Press ($2.50). Brief but penetrating
sketches of Macaulay, Lord Chesterfield, Queen Victoria, Cromwell et
al. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, 1914-1917- Charles Seymour-F
From England comes the interesting and highly important report that Sir Samuel Hoare is soon due to return to the Baldwin cabinet. His new position, it is authoritatively stated, will be as first Lord of the Admiralty where he will replace the resigning Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell. The crux of the situation is that Sir Samuel's immense energy and grasp of the international situation has been found indispensable, and that the government will risk overthrow or embarassment in return for his invaluable services...