Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this to fall into the hands of somebody who will love it." Mrs. Gerhardt promptly took the desk to Harry F. Marks, Manhattan bookdealer, who, last week, to the astonishment of antiquarians, who are forever losing track of the things they admire the most, announced that he had sold Lord Byron's desk. The purchaser withheld his name because he wanted to give it to his mother, for a surprise, on Christmas. Lord Byron's razors were still in their proper compartment...
Spellbound. Imagination, seed of woe, flowers into tragedy or pathos, according to the ground it falls on. In Spellbound, it has fallen on a London shopgirl. A pathetic play is the result. Yet so artfully is this pathos accented by Actress Pauline Lord, whose specialty has long been the anguish of the inarticulate, that the play's weakness is concealed. There are moments in Spellbound when Miss Lord crosses the high road of true tragedy and makes Ethel Underwood at least a half-sister to all whose dreams have led them lost...
Actor Campbell Gullan performs notably as the jealous huband exercising his shoddy, maniacal little power over the frightened girl. His support lends much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...
...Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...
However, this was no new thing for the Right Honorable Lord Bertrand Edward Dawson, first Baron Dawson of Penn, to say. Famed a generation ago (he is now in his 60's) for his work and books on gastrointestinal diseases, he advocated intelligent control of conception from the first stirrings of the movement for birth control. In 1921 he wrote his Love, Marriage & Birth Control...