Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last trial of a peer by the House of Lords was 34 years ago, when Lord Russell was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to three months in jail, the usual sentence for a bigamist in England being two years. After serving ten days, Lord Russell was pardoned by King Edward...
Seated on the woolsack in his best robes and formal full-bottomed wig, Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham and Lord High Chancellor, commanded Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, Clerk of the Parliaments, to call the roll. About 100 of the realm's approximate total of 860 peers had arrived, this making an unusually large House of Lords...
...Each Lord rose to answer "Here!" All then departed in their trailing robes and black cocked hats from the House of Lords into the open street, whence they proceeded to the Royal Gallery. In this Gallery's gallery a fashionable crush had poured in around slender, fragile U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham. Bright-eyed with anticipation, he had arrived first, as he nearly always does at spectacles of British pageantry...
...front of it, slightly more uncomfortable than on his usual woolsack, Viscount Hailsham sat down. The peers doffed their cocked hats. Garter King of Arms, a figure in black and cloth-of-gold, read the King's Commission signed by George V: "Know ye that Edward Southwell Russell, Lord de Clifford, stands indicted before...
...this Lord de Clifford, whose mother was a six-foot showgirl, came towering in -six feet five inches of gangling but impeccably groomed youth. Escorting him to the bar, where he fell on his knees upon a velvet cushion, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod boomed, "Oyez, oyez. God save the King...