Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Hero McCartney has not been able to "settle down" he was on trial, last week in London, before the Lord Chief Justice of England-as a spy. In the dock with him was a German youth, one George Hansen, 24. Both were charged with recent spying in behalf of Soviet Russia and with unsuccessful attempts to purchase state secrets from a faithful employe, George Monkland, who had denounced them to Scotland Yard...
...diffused golden light, her fingers quiet upon silent strings. One Guitar Player was bought in London in 1896 by John G. Johnson and has reposed, since his death, with the rest of his collection in his Philadelphia house. Last week, British connoisseurs who viewed the collection of Lord Iveagh, shown to the public in London last week, discovered another Guitar Player, very similar to the Guitar Player in the Johnson collection. This they said with one accord, was the genuine Vermeer; the painting in the U. S. was a replica, a copy, an imitation, anything except the original Guitar Player...
...frail, delicate, serious, Lord Halifax could read in the encyclical the defeat of a lifetime's labor. It had been his idea, as it was the idea of many English high-churchmen and laymen, that the Church of England, which does not recognize itself as protestant in the sense for example of Lutheran, Methodist, or Presbyterian Churches, might be ready to amalgamate itself with the Roman Church. Certainly, for the last century, some members of the Anglican Church have tended more and more to recognize certain Roman Catholic tenets. At the Lambeth Conference, in 1920, English clergymen stated their willingness...
Recently Pope Pius refused Lord Halifax a private audience. His present encyclical, while it does not end the indubitable Anglican tendency toward Church Unity, leaves no hope that it can be reached through the means hitherto most emphasized...
Died. Signorinetta, 23, winner of the Derby Stakes at Epsom (1908) at 100-to-1, and last filly to capture this classic; on the estate of Lord Rosebery, her owner, at Epsom...