Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud young Amir of Afghanistan is the despot of a mountain realm rising like a sword between British India and Asiatic Russia. He divides one from the other, defies both. Last week the Amir Amanullah (literally "The Sovereign Lord 'Peace of God' ") set foot upon European soil at Naples, sped by specal train to Rome, began an extensive tour of the Occident...
Styling himself "Lord," Timothy Dexter crowned a haddock-hawker his poet laureate with a wreath of parsley. He drank copiously, published incessant screeds of his own and built a house which bristled with minarets and was approached through a triumphal arch surmounted with wooden statues of heroes, from Adam to Timothy Dexter, at whom, as at "'Bossy" Gillis, the world gaped...
Impressed by the way he conducted himself last summer in Europe, the Mardi Gras Committee of New Orleans last week announced that it had invited glib, dapper Mayor James John Walker of New York to be Lord High Chamberlain of its revels next month. Mayor Walker was reported trying to contrive to accept...
...which Editor O'Brien makes it his annual business to compile. Ernest Hemingway's famed The Killers, about two men who go into a lunch counter looking for a man they want to murder; Owen Wister's story about the card sharping son of a British lord; Joseph Hergesheimer's Triall by Armes, winding the suave coils of its prose around the mind of a millionaire's daughter who has married a multimillionaire's somewhat fragile son; Good Morning, Major, in which J. P. Marquand accentuates a melodramatic moment in the old army game...
...veterans who will return to the diamond are Captain H. W. Burns '28, center field, J. P. Chase '28, second base or left field, F. B. Cutts '28, pitcher, J. N. Barbee '28 pitcher, W. W. Lord '28, first base or left field, R. C. Sullivan '28, shortstop, G. E. Donaghy '29 short stop or third base, and W. B. Jones '28, right field...