Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Bureau of the Budget, next addressed the meeting. He told five humorous stories: one about a Scotsman and an Irishman, one about a Negro and a Negress (Rufus and Narcissa), one about a Negro preacher with a fondness for long words, one about a fish too big to be true, one about a man who said that a church service "beat the devil." He also inaugurated the Loyal Order of Woodpeckers, whose members will dedicate themselves to performing small but frequent economies, and "whose persistent tapping away at waste will make cheerful music...
...newspapers frankly condoned the murder. At Vilna, Poland, home city of Murderer Kovenko, the White Russian newspaper Novaia Rossia appealed for contributions wherewith to retain able defense attorneys in his behalf. Immediately the Polish Government suppressed Novaia Rossia, placed the editor in jail. In London Lord Rothermere's violently anti-red Evening News declared: "The slain man (Vojkov) signed the death warrants of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family. By Vojkov's assassination at the hand of a royalist, retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history...
...presence at Tientsin gave confidence to U. S. citizens in Peking. They still feared, to be sure, that the Peking War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, might withdraw before the Southern armies,, retire to his war base at Mukden, and abandon Peking to its conquerors; but with General Butler at hand, together with British, Japanese and French marine detachments, the safety of Occidentals in Peking seemed secure...
...ninety-first Commencement season will get under way when President Lowell delivers the Baccalureate sermon to the Class of 1927 in Appleton Chapel. Edward Caldwell Moore, Professor and Chairman of the Board of ORDER OF WORSHIP Organ Prelude: Psalm Marcello Processional: March Lachner Sentences from the Scripture Invocation The Lord's Prayer Responsive Reading Anthem: Prayer of Thanksgiving Netherlands Folk Song Scripture Lesson Hymn The Sermon President Lowell Baccalaureate Hymn Prayer Recessional: March Mendelssohn...
HARVARD TUFTS Burns c.f. c.f. Ellis Zarakov 3b. 3b. Leonardi Donaghy r.f. s.s. Kennedy Lord l.f. r.f. Fitzgerald Chauncey c. 2b. Starthdee Ullman 2b. l.f. Herrmann Tobin 1b. c. Dorcubaum Sullivan s.s. 1b. Kelley Cutts or Howard p. p. Robinson...