Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Justice, if the court please. ... He knows that only the record is admissible in this court of law or in any other court of law, not alone in this country but in the Supreme Court of which this young man's father is the Lord High Chief Justice. And it has been the pleasure of this defendant to appear before that High Chief Justice! But the performance given by the offshoot of that great, renowned character is pitiful, if the court please...
William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced to the assembled commoners that the Government has decided to "about ship" as regards its naval construction program. He said that two of the three cruisers ordered to be laid down this year would not be proceeded with, owing to "the situation disclosed at the Geneva Naval Conference." The announcement was received by prolonged cheering in all parts of the House...
...sure that, if persisted in, this warning bangs, bolts and bars the door against any hope of fur ther agreement with the United States on naval armament." It was this attitude, said Lord Cecil, that prevented an agreement when one had "very nearly" been reached. Continued...
Messrs. Arthur Brisbane and William Randolph Hearst, who long have danced up and down the columns wearing the leering mask of the British war lord and the awful face of the Japanese warrior-samurai, have stopped scaring the children with stories of the air fleets to pass in the night. With several heartfelt sighs of relief King George and the Mikado learn that William Randolph and all the little pitch pipes in the great Hearst organ are now braying towards Mexico...
...other conversational flotsam between board covers. The gossip about Henry Ward Beecher's liaison, the lady friend of the Man in the Iron Mask, the other life of Carlyle. All the things that were tongue transmitted because the tabloid was not yet. Louis VIII and Roosevelt ... Francis Joseph and Lord Northcliffe ... Joan of Arc and Jesse James ... all that was said by lips behind a gloved hand or an outspread fan. Why Victoria sent the young officer into the India service, the life and times of the President's Daughter, who paid Lieutenant Becker. How can what almost...