Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following soon after Lord Wellingdon's visit to the University and Washington, the Glee Club was received as a return delegation aiding in reinforcing the bonds between the two neighboring countries. Both musically and socially the reception was the warmest accorded the club since its European trip several years ago, according to W. C. Atwater '28, president of the organization...
Reaching Ottawa the next day the men were received at luncheon by the American Minister to Canada Later they were entertained at a tea in Government House by Lord and Lady Wellington McKenzie King, premier of Canada and many other notables. At the concert that evening the singers were again accorded an enthusiastic welcome. Press comment was favorable saying that "if anything is incomparable or unique, it is without an equal. It seems to me that the two words might justly be applied to the Harvard Glee Club, at any rate I have yet to hear its equal though...
...During the week, President Coolidge, Premier Mussolini, Marshal Foch, General Pershing, Edward of Wales, Thomas A. Edison, Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany, Admiral Lord Beatty of Britain, and many another, appeared in the East Room of the White House and made speeches?in a special Movietone performance...
Since 1903 the sole direction of the conduct and policy of the Telegraph has been in the hands of Harry Lawson, Webster Lawson, now Viscount Burnham. His father had managed the property before him, and Lord Burnham has retained the family tone and tempo...
...motion for approval was put by First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman, a Cabinet member, speaking, he said, simply in behalf of "the man in the pew." Premier Baldwin himself supported Mr. Bridgeman, pointing out that the proposed revision was a compromise between high and low church opinion. He warned that to deny the church her carefully chosen ground of compromise would be to weaken her authority to a point at which proposals to disestablish the Church might again be made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment...