Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Furious, Lord Lloyd protested vainly for an hour, finally was allowed to use the telephone. Calling the British Embassy he gave way to his feelings. Scandalized, the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald William Graham, sped in person to the police station, identified Lord Lloyd, swore that he was no potential assassin, and secured his release by a reluctant and still auspicious Fascist Police Captain. Foreigners in Italy less potent than...
...Lord Lloyd redoubled their care to smartly salute the Fascist banner wherever displayed on pain of arrest (TIME...
...Doran ($3.50). ¼³THE TOUR OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA-Ralph Deakin -Lippincott ($4.00). *His full title is instructive as a gazetteer of his eight million square miles of absolute domain: "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ-loving, the absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovitch, Emperoi and Autocrat of All the Russias, His Tsaric Majesty of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Chersonesus in Tauria, Tsar of Georgia, Lord of Pskov and Great Duke of Smolensk...
Finally England and the U. S. are being diverted by an anonymous "hoax book,"* in which the late King Edward VII receives praise for his high living and higher diplomacy, and almost everyone else from Cecil Rhodes to Margot Asquith and from Lord Kitchener to Lord Northcliffe is flayed and tittle-tattled about...
...year of the unpleasant 'Marconi scandal,' in which I had no part. The British Postoffice approved a tender of my British company to build stations for its use. Godfrey Isaacs, manager of both my British and American companies, advised his brother Rufus, then Attorney General, later Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, to buy shares in the American company. Rufus Isaacs bought ?10,000 worth, soon selling ?1,000 to David Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. The affair came to light. Mr. Lloyd-George was bitterly assailed for profiting privately from official...