Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although none could doubt the sincerity of bullnecked, forthright Lord Rothermere, persons of active memory recalled that while Signor Mussolini officially founded the Fascist movement in March 1919, this "founding" was essentially a renaming of Nationalist groups which had been assembled by others in the days when Benito Mussolini was an ardent Socialist...
...Lord Rothermere, secure in the knowledge that Il Duce is now politically a Black, wrote on, last week, in somewhat mystic vein...
...horse that had stumbled, with Tom Cullinan up, was second at 33 to 1. There was no third. "Where did that fine horse stumble?" said the King of Afghanistan to the Countess Dejumilhac. "My God, I don't know," said the Countess Dejumilhac, "I was saying the Lord's Prayer with my back to the track. I guess she fell about the fifth time I got to 'forgive us our trespasses...
...never grants interviews. While in Manhattan he lives at the Hotel Astor, but he likes Milan better. He always dines in his own apartment, eats little and preferably Italian food. Like Lord Rothermere and Il Duce (see page 18), he never smokes. He sleeps five hours a night, with his dog Pictiu, a Brussels griffon given him by Frances Alda, beside him in a basket. He shaves himself-and with a safety razor...
...Ambassador to the U. S., in company with one Edward Bullough, fellow student at Caius College, Cambridge, paid a visit to Pope Pius XI. They presented to His Holiness a petition asking the Canonization of the Blessed Cardinal Fisher, onetime Chancellor of Cambridge, and the Blessed Thomas More, onetime Lord Chancellor of England. In the 16th Century these men opposed King Henry VIII's divorce from his first (Catholic) wife; both were beheaded. The Pontiff conversed with the two youths for one half hour, recalling his visits to England...