Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of its trained re serves. Since the military might of France is chiefly based on the huge number of her annually conscripted reserves and the vast supplies of guns, shells and tanks always at their disposal, the pur pose of the French move was obvious. Last week Lord Cecil demanded, in the name of the new British Labor Government, that both war stocks and trained reserves should be put back on the list of "armaments" which the Preparatory Commission is seeking ways to reduce. Stressing particularly the urgency of limiting engines of warfare, Lord Cecil cried: "I consider machines...
...Light fiction, especially detective stories," has been the chief convalescent literary diet prescribed for George V, but last week His Majesty was allowed to delve into a fairly hefty tome, his new biography by discreet old Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur, 69, onetime private secretary to Lord Kitchener, whom he also biographed...
...realm of history and literature, the Amy Lowell collection of autographs is outstanding: letters from the correspondence of Madame de Stael, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Rousseau, Voltaire, Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Marie Antoinette to Necker, and, finally, a document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte...
Chairman will be Frank Warrenner Blair, Union Trust president, onetime drugstore clerk. President will be Robert Owen Lord, head of Guardian Detroit Group. Modest, he gave credit for Guardian Detroit Group's success to his subordinates, described them as "very fine young men who are not afraid of hard work...
When the directors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., Ltd., obtained as their compendium's editor-in-chief able James Louis Garvin, longtime editor of the London Observer and in the late Lord Northcliffe's opinion "the greatest living journalist" (TIME, April 26, 1926), the publishing world knew that something striking might happen to the Patriarch of the Library. Editor Garvin's selection was encouraged by U. S. representatives and the American Advisory Board, with Franklin Henry Hooper of New York as American Editor, was given new freedom...