Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seldom do proceedings of the House of Lords interest Italians but last week they were cheering for young Lord de Clifford when he was tried by his peers for a felony. Reason: de Clifford is a disciple of British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, the only foreign Fascist whose portrait hangs in Rome at Fascist Party headquarters. Like the good Fascist he is, Lord de Clifford bought himself some time ago an Italian supercharged Lancia in which to burn up the road between Belisha beacons. While doing so one night the Italian Lancia met a British Frazer-Nash head...
...House of Lords had a special opportunity to refurbish England's honor by giving Lord de Clifford exactly the same sort of justice a commoner, who had been driving 40 m.p.h. in the middle of the road through a foggy night to a death-dealing smash, might expect in any English court...
Mother of Lord de Clifford was the "Gibson Girl," Evelyn Chandler, a statuesque stage beauty some six feet tall. His wife is the daughter of London's frequently arrested night club queen, Mrs. Kate Meyrick. Lord de Clifford's chief previous legal difficulty was for "giving false information" in order to obtain his marriage license. This peccadillo carried a possible penalty of seven years in jail. London's Lord Mayor took a romantic view of the case in his capacity of magistrate, not only let Lord de Clifford off with a fine of $250 but gave...
...Manhattan last week arrived His Grace the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Doctor William Temple, 54, Lord Archbishop of York. This Primate of England is ecclesiastically outranked only by the Defender of the Faith, King George V, and the Primate of All England, the Archbishop of Canterbury. On shipboard the stout, brisk Archbishop received newshawks, spoke newsworthily when one of them suggested that "the church has not shown strength in recent years in maintaining world peace." Replied Dr. Temple: ''I'm afraid I don't know that the church has ever done much to keep...
...guidance a king still rules there. Though he affects the coral headdress of his ancestors and a curved executioner's sword still precedes him wherever he goes, he wears gold-rimmed spectacles, speaks with an Oxford accent, and was discovered last year seated in a rocking chair, reading Lord Chesterfield's Letters...