Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is to be a disarmament conference at Geneva, the plenipotentiary of the U. S. will be Hugh S. Gibson, newly appointed Ambassador to Belgium (see below). Great Britain's leading delegate will probably be Viscount Cecil (Lord Robert Cecil) of Chelwood; first (1924) winner of the Woodrow Wilson $25,000 peace prize...
Since this mummery had been imperfectly timed last week, the Commons came scrambling after the Black Rod into the House of Lords with unseemly haste. Soon the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Balfour, knelt and presented to His Majesty a scroll containing "The King's Speech." In clear, vibrant tones, distinctly audible to everyone, George V read what purported to be his own speech...
Today, in Peking at the semibarbaric court of the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, Mrs. Wellington Koo is par excellence the cosmopolitan aristocrat of feminine China...
...form of Roman Catholic confession is this : The penitent, kneeling at the confessor's feet, says : "Pray, Father, bless me, for I have sinned." The priest says : "The Lord be in thy heart and on thy lips, that thou mayest truly and humbly confess thy sins, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Penitent: "I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, [tells of sins committed since last confession]. . . . For these and all my other sins which I can not now remember I am heartily sorry ; I purpose amendment...
General Electric Co. and Barton, Durstine & Osborn and Lord & Thomas and Logan (agencies) for General Electric's institutional advertising...