Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed to be the real ruler of Hopei and Chahar Provinces, to maintain some kind of Nanking authority in North China by accepting the title of "Pacification Commissioner." This honor General Sung, who looks and knows how to act the part of a traditional hoary Chinese War Lord with delicacy and finesse, declined...
...week the British cinema industry picked as president of the Board of Film Censors one of the most distinguished and worldly men in the realm, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from 1928 to 1934. Lord Tyrrell accepted the job because he needed the money. Lord Tyrrell knows the Continent like the palm of his hand, loves France and is distrusted by Germans. When he quit his Ambassadorship last year because of poor health, the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter chortled, "His departure...
Although a new World Naval Conference convenes Dec. 6 in London (see p. 9), Britons last week so thoroughly expected its failure due to Rearmament that they scarcely bothered to note that the First Lord of the Admiralty remains Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell. His formula for the Conference is not limitation, much less reduction of naval armaments, but "pooled programs." By this Sir Bolton means not that the great naval powers will be asked to pool their Might for any high-minded purpose, but merely that they will be asked to pool with each other non-binding statements relating...
...Stanley did to friendly Edith the insulted peeress herself revealed with an icy statement from Londonderry House that it will not be the scene this year of Mayfair's swankest ball on the eve of Parliament's reopening Dec. 3. Concluded the irate Marchioness of Londonderry: "The Lord and Lady Londonderry offered their house as usual to the Prime Minister but Mr. Baldwin considered the present moment not opportune...
Finally all bishops present and the general Anglican Assembly were worked up to loud and prolonged cheering by the Bishop of Durham. "Jews are just as mixed a race as the Germans; they could hardly be more!" cried this Lord Spiritual. "This nonsense about 'race'-as if there were some poison in the ancestry of Judaism which must be guarded against- is sheer hallucination. It is preposterous! . . . We loathe and detest this attitude obtaining in Germany and protest...