Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aircraft. In acceleration of aircraft production Germany has pioneered, led the whole European field and may still be leading, despite frantic efforts to accelerate production by the other great powers, notably Britain. Göring has been to the European war plane what Ford was to the car, and Lord Nuffield is only now entering the air race as Britain's Big Builder...
...Lord Mayor of London, kindly Sir Harry Twyford, whose instant reaction to Munich was to start a charitable subscription for refugees from the Sudetenland, arrived in Prague beaming with the news that his British fund already had almost $200,000 in hand. Sir Harry was shortly told by Jewish, Communist and Socialist leaders among the Sudeten refugees that money was "almost no use" in the dire emergency they faced. Within 48 hours after a Sudeten refugee arrived in what remained of Czechoslovakia last week, he could count on being flung back into Germany...
...contradictory rule in the old Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. A one-sentence, 67-word declaration, it promised a "Jewish national homeland" but conspicuously failed to define whether a Jewish homeland meant a home with an Arab or a Jewish majority. At first high Arab leaders, equally lulled by Lord Balf our's vagueness, were inclined to welcome their "Semitic brothers" back to the Holy Land...
...lily-and-sunflower posturings caricatured by Gilbert & Sullivan in Patience, his visit to the U.S. when he told the customs officers that he had nothing to declare but his genius. It introduces him at the height of his fame, spouting epigrams and penning paradoxes, when his intimacy with young Lord Alfred Douglas has aroused the furious opposition of Douglas' father, the Marquis of Queensberry. Soon Queensberry has goaded Wilde into suing him for libel; the suit is lost and Wilde at once brought to trial on charges of pederasty. He is found guilty and sent to prison...
...Married. Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 26, youngest son of Scotland's Premier Peer, like his eldest brother Douglas, Marquess of Clydesdale, a famed amateur boxer, airplane pilot, mountaineer; and 23-year-old Prunella ("Perfect Girl") Stack, head of Great Britain's Women's League of Health and Beauty; in Glasgow, Scotland...