Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawing the Mother Country and other parts of the British Commonwealth even more closely together. This huge sum was given by an anonymous British donor as a thank offering for Mr. Baldwin's masterly success in keeping Mrs. Simpson off the throne of England. For some time, Lord Baldwin has been expected to make a tour of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, to see about spending the $37,500 annual income from this Imperial Trust. But the Earl has been in no hurry. On the day he ceased to be Prime Minister, he discarded formal morning suit, heavy...
...shall do a job I wanted to do last year but could not," said Lord Baldwin, and all present braced themselves for the announcement. The Earl then capped his climax: "I am going to go through my papers for the last 18 years. Those papers are reposing in a tin box, and if there is anything in them which will hang anybody then I will destroy them. ... It will keep me quiet for three months...
Continentals expect an Englishman to arrive on diplomatic missions with an odor of sanctity, and Prague was not surprised to read that before Lord Runciman left Cowes, where he had been yachting, he bowed his head in its Holy Trinity Church while the vicar intoned a prayer "for one who is about to go to Czechoslovakia...
...mountain of luggage, exceptional even for a traveling British peer, went with Lord & Lady Runciman to Prague. He told reporters: "I may stay a month, or it may be three months." The Czechoslovak Government, on discovering that the British Legation staff were turning out in top hats to meet a Purely Private Person at the station, sent their own top hats, and in every observable respect Britain's unofficial mediator became official. His large staff of British Civil Servants released press handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague...
...vanquished the rebellious King of Megiddo and his Asiatic allies, after a surprise movement of the Egyptian cavalry through the pass. There, during the World War, General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby of Britain bested the Turks by repeating Thutmose's maneuver, and was elevated to the peerage as Lord Allenby of Megiddo. The old Biblical writers logically looked to Armageddon as the site of the world's final, cataclysmic battle, and predicted that there the armies of Gog-a popular representation of Antichrist-would meet crushing defeat...