Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suddenly increased all tariffs and port dues last week to an extent which local U. S. merchants and shippers declared would prove "ruinous." Members of the U. S. colony at Shanghai transmitted through the local consul a protest and appeal to President Coolidge. Observers thought that the Nanking War Lord, Chiang Kaishek, was suffering reverses in his campaign to take Peking (TIME, March 28, et seq.) and had adopted the desperate expedient of raising all port taxes to increase his failing revenue...
...Institute of Public Affairs, designed to air chiefly domestic problems of the U. S. Among the vigilantes scheduled to appear at Charlottesville, Va., were Governors Alfred E. Smith of New York, Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, Director of the Budget General H. M. Lord; Vice President Charles G. Dawes; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; various university presidents, senators past and present, Government experts, college professors...
...sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series of heartless frauds"; but the culprit, who had conducted his own defense, rose to the occasion with a deep bow and the words: "My Lord, I only go where all accused men are sent in this land...
...years a circuit judge in Missouri; "consecrated myself to the Lord" in 1906. He is now 58 years...
...unreels the story of an Ohio boy whose domineering mother married him off young and innocent to a pallid missionary, a virgin before the Lord, called Naomi. In an Africa which Mr. Bromfield must have studied up on lurid picture postcards, Philip Downes revolts against his calling and celibacy. Attacked by bloodthirsty blackamoors, he narrowly escapes with life and wife back to Ohio, where he enters a steel mill and espouses his fellow-workers' cause. Just before they go on a losing strike, he slips off unexpectedly into a career of painting...