Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burns, Mrs. G. H. Chase, Mrs. P. P. Chase, Mrs. Stanley Cunningham, Mrs. W. B. Donham Mrs. G. H. Edgell, Mrs. D. L. Edsall, Mrs. L. J. Franklin, Mrs. Joseph Guarnaccia, Mrs. A. C. Hanford, Mrs. C. S. Harper, Mrs. H. W. Holmes, Mrs. James Lawrence, Mrs. J. A. Lord, Mrs. E. C. Moore, Mrs. John Parkinson. Mrs. R. B. Perry, Mrs. Roscoe Pound, Mrs. R. S. Wamer, and Mrs. Ridley Watts...
...Lord Dunsany's dream play, much read in schools and seldom played, appeared last week. A meagre English wage earner disappears over the hills of dreams into an Eastern land. He murders the ruler; rules in his stead; smiles at his consort, a fair but evil-tempered English girl. She plots his death with an envious sheik; he escapes through a secret door; awakes; relieved that life is monotonous, secure. This difficult, often beautiful fantasy was given by the resolute group that is left from the defunct Neighborhood Playhouse.* They gave it well on an obviously limited expense account...
...John Burgoyne was born in London in 1722. The family was of good old stock. . . ." Gentleman Johnny, like many a brave young man of his day or of any day, spent his youth in riotous and genial diversions. A soldier but not inelegant, he wrote a letter to a lord and signed...
...woods until after Gentleman Johnny had forced the Rebel army to evacuate Fort Ticonderoga. After that came the first skirmish at Saratoga, in which Burgoyne won a few downy feathers for his hat; then trouble ran towards him with a war whoop. Due largely to the idiotic incompetence of Lord George Germain, who was sending orders from England, Burgoyne lost the battle of Saratoga. In this, one of the world's fifteen decisive battles, the rocket of British victory broke and splintered down in a bright shower of speeches, excuses, parades and further sprightly but ineffectual engagements. With Saratoga, Gentleman...
Rockefeller Abroad. At Oxford University, England, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Cave, last week opened a new school of biochemistry. Rockefeller money provided $175,000 toward the cost of the building and $100,000 for its maintenance. The university contributed...