Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summing up, the Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, came near to sneering at the petty successes of the accused. Said he: "The word spy has been used time after time in this case. The word seems misapplied when used concerning either of you. A spy is very often a brave man who, for the sake of his country, encounters a very serious personal risk, but in these matters you have been doing nothing for your country...
...have become for pay hireling agents of mere mischief." The jury, having deliberated 14 minutes, brought in a verdict of guilty; and soon the Lord Chief Justice imposed upon two makers of "mere mischief" sentences of 10 years imprisonment each. Commenting on the trial, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg vigorously stressed his belief that only part of a general Russian-subsidized spy system had been uncovered. "Unluckily," said he "we have not been able to gather in our net all those concerned, though I trust the result of this trial will make others think before they pursue their dangerous...
...largely due to a man from Cleveland that the panic did not extend so far that the whole population would have left [Paris] and the Germans marched in. ?Lord Northcliffe...
Truculents. Secondly, last week, were classed the great and rationally truculent: 1) Fallen War Lord Trotsky; 2) Onetime Soviet Ambassador to Paris Christian Rakovsky; 3) Leading Soviet Propagandist Karl Radek. These and their immediate followers were sent away to individual exile in separate, widely dispersed towns of Asiatic Russia. Trotsky was scheduled to speed by rail from Moscow across European Russia, traverse the broad Volga, proceed again by rail through the steppes of Kirghiz and to the end of the line in the mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi...
...personally. The passive type is sentimental, full of stagnant platitudes, lazy. Both types tend to become fleshy with years, should watch their digestive systems. Under this sign were born Calvin Coolidge, William Edgar Borah, Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, John D.. Rockefeller Sr., Jack Dempsey, the late Lord Northcliffe...