Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just 14 months ago (TIME, April 12, 1926), Feng Yu-hsiang was driven from Peking by the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, who is still supreme there. Marshal Feng retreated into Mongolia, consolidated his forces there, then hurried to Moscow where he allegedly obtained enormous grants of gold, supplies, arms, ammunition. Therefore it was pretty to see last week, how Marshal Feng managed to convey the impression that he is not a Communist, yet carefully did not disavow or antagonize the Soviet Government...
...Alfred Lord Tennyson's Locksley Pall...
...Monday performance of The Second Man, made a speech, presented two prizes. They were gold plaques awarded by the Morning Telegraph (New York) to the actor and actress who, in the opinions of Manhattan daily newspaper critics, gave the best performances of the year. The winners: Miss Pauline Lord for her work in Sandalwood, Mariners; Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Second Man. Actresses honorably mentioned in the critics' ballots: Alice Brady (Sour Grapes, The Witch, Lady Alone, The Thief), Ruth Gordon (Saturday's Children), Rose McClendon (In Abraham...
...Orange, N. J., one Louis Pruden, venerable bee farmer of Whippany, N. J., stood in the middle of the railroad track facing a speeding Lackawanna train. "The Lord commands you to stop!" cried he loudly...
Still conscious, with only his right leg broken, Mr. Pruden told the two policemen who picked him up: "Listen boys, I came down here to see if the Lord would look after me. I expected Him to protect me. But He didn't. You can see that for yourselves. . . . Still I'm not faultin' Him. He did pretty well to keep me alive...