Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mercenaries, escorted by Japanese troops, last week "captured" Tangku, port of Tientsin. If a renowned Chinese Marshal with a name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At week's end cables from Tientsin announced that the great "Scholar War Lord," Marshal Wu Pei-fu, had agreed to end eight years of erudite and pious seclusion in a Buddhist monastery to rule North China...
...What do you say, My Lord?" came the Voice from the Dais...
Defending Lord de Clifford, Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett recalled that the defendant had admitted to police that he was driving on the wrong side or middle of the road, saying he had done so because the other car was approaching at tremendous speed and in his judgment that was the way to minimize or avoid an accident. "In the agony of the moment, just before the collision," cried Sir Henry, "he did as he thought best...
Died. Prince Svasti, 70, onetime Siamese Minister of Justice, later Lord Chief Justice, son of the late King Mongkut, brother of the late King Chulalongkorn, father-in-law of ex-King Prajadhipok; in Penang, Straits Settlements...
Luckily he had Charles on his side. When the Lord High Admiral resigned, no successor was appointed, and Pepys became Secretary. He made the fur fly. He put down "corruption, laissez-faire and boozy optimism" with a stern official hand. Says Biographer Bryant: "By his precept and example Pepys was to transform an inchoate and ill-directed service into the most enduring, exact and potent instrument of force seen on this disorderly planet since the days of Imperial Rome...