Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to the castle of Chilon by steam and row boat. We saw the gloomey dungeons where the prisoners of yore were kept. We saw Lord Byrons name. The place where the prisoners were kept the night before they were hung. The place where hung. The modern baracks and prisons. We saw the prison where Boulden was kept and the stone worn away by his footsteps...
...LORD OF THE WILD, by Samuel Scoville Jr. (William Morrow & Co., $2.00), contains 13 stories of wild animals in their native haunts; the stories of fennecs in South Africa, grey wolves of the Artic, and cobras in India. Mr. Scoville, the author of three other books on wild life, and a field naturalist of long standing, evidently knows his subject well, and has the imagination and ability to give the reader an extremely vivid picture of the scene he portrays...
There are three leading candidates for the position behind the home plate. W. W. Lord '28, who played both in the field and on first base last spring, seems to have a very slight edge over his rivals, E. J. Steptoe '29 and D. P. Donaldson '28. Steptoe and Donaldson are both catchers of considerable experience, and although neither of them has been a regular on the University nine, they are perfectly capable of developing into first rate backstops...
...Admiralty's estimate of its budgetary needs was presented to the House of Commons, last week, by rubicund First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman. After tolling out the mighty total sum of ?57,300,000 ($278,478,000), Mr. Bridgeman remarked that this represents a cut of ?700,000 from the appropriations of last year...
Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes, eldest daughter of Hugo Stinnes (late industrial lord of the German Ruhr), reached Peking, China, last week in an automobile which she had adventurously driven from Berlin across the Balkans, Turkey and Asiatic Russia (TIME, June 6). She will drive on "around the world" ferrying the Pacific and Atlantic...