Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all judges, the temptation to utter from the bench what pass for witticisms has come at last to the Right Honorable Sir Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England. . . . Recently (TIME, April 25) Lord Chief Justice Hewart caused the world to titter with him by awarding "two and six" to a husband who claimed damages for the loss of his wife. Last week, Baron Hewart set out to better this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider...
Baron Carson, (Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Henry Carson) onetime (1917) First Lord of the Admiralty: "[Lord Oxford and] Asquith is like a drunken man walking along a straight line-the farther he goes the sooner he falls." T. P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons": "[Of the Empress Frederick of Germany I may say that] her breadth of mind was masculine in its depth...
HARVARD NEW HAMPSHIRE Burns c.f. s.s. Ramsey Jones r.f. 2b. Hatch Zarakov 3b. 3b. Hoyt Lord l.f. c.f. Jenkins Tobin 1b. l.f. Gustafson Ullman 2b. r.f. Hicks Chauncy c. c. French Donaghy s.s. 1b. Kirvan Cutts p. p. Slayton...
...Crimson nine scored first in the opening frame when three walks and a sacrifice hit scored Jones. Thereafter Harvard added other tallies in the odd innings until the fifth when Coach Mitchell's sluggers went on a rampage. Chase, Lord, and Chauncey, of the first four men to come to the plate in that canto, hit Thomas for clean singles. An error in centerfield on Ullman's hit brought in several runs and placed Ullman on second. Donaghy followed with a smashing single. The Wesleyan infielders tossed the ball around a while and when they were through Ullman had scored...
HARVARD WESLEYAN Burns c.f l.f. Lyons Jones r.f. s.s. Bescher Zarakov 3b. c.f. Dietter Lord l.f. r.f. Silloway Tobin 1b. 1b. Cowperthwaite Ullman 2b. c. Manuel Chauncey c. 2b. Guthrie Donaghy s.s. 3b. Stubbenbord Barbee p. p. Travis...