Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the possibility of the New England Intercollegiate soccer championship in the offing, a strong Harvard varsity soccer team will clash with Amherst this afternoon at Lord Jeffery's frontier settlement...
HOLLYWOOD--Samuel Goldwyn, the movie producer, was recovering today from the shock of a Scottish collegiate prank which carried farther than its authors anticipated. Goldwyn was advised today that he had been nominated for the position of Lord Rector of Glasgow University. Careful checkups with London officials seemed to substantiate the notification. Then cable dispatches from Glasgow disclosed the Goldwyn nomination was part of the annual student fun-making which accompanies nomination of a rector. They also had nominated Haile Solassic...
Aristocratic Mr. Eden's aristocratic friend, Alfred Duff Cooper, who last week resigned as First Lord of the British Admiralty in "protest" at the Munich settlement, although he personally saw Neville Chamberlain off with good wishes (see p. 16), spoke up sharply. Chamberlain dealt with Hitler "in the language of sweet reasonableness," Duff Cooper told the House, in a speech interrupted by his sobbing, "whereas the mailed fist is the only language Hitler understands!" Germany would have backed down, said Mr. Duff Cooper, if Britain had sooner mobilized her fleet, which was under his command as First Lord...
...House of Lords, Labor's Spokesman Lord Snell of Plumstead sounded the same challenge: "Conferences should become the habit. We should include Germany and Russia-all countries willing to work for Peace...
...could have engaged in a war of indefinite duration," Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax countered to the House of Lords. "If we had won, nobody, in settling the boundaries of Czechoslovakia, would have redrawn them as they were left by the Treaty of Versailles." Lord Halifax said the reason why Russia was not invited to Munich was that, if she had been, then neither Germany nor Italy would have attended. Concluded the tall, ascetic Viscount, who has a nationwide British reputation in Church circles for spirituality and moral leadership: "I have taken no decision which, on all the facts...