Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaves which drop from trees, grown gray with the dread of winter, are not unique in definition of autumn. Politics, that ancient blade, primps in the forum and takes tea with Lord Teazle now an Irish peer to keep the metaphor. And fall is here...
...Lord Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winning-ton-Ingram, famed for his youthful outlook and sympathy with undergraduate sentiments, will speak at Appleton Chapel on October...
This week, if he keeps safe from storm by night and peril in Canada, will arrive in the U. S. the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Lord* Bishop of London. Guest of the Department of Religious Education of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, he will spend six weeks here, lecturing at colleges and schools. "You might also arrange," he wrote an executive, "for me to play tennis or squash raquets or golf with young men, as I am still playing all of these pretty well...
...Lord Bishop is 68. He likes boys. An active, voluble man with a big mouth and a professionally magnetic smile, he is skilled in the art of human intercourse, that art which consists of a measured degree of self-withdrawal combined with a hint of infinite comprehension. It is an art which can be practiced, in its higher degrees, only by amateurs, but when Bishop Ingram oversteps urbanity in his social assault upon the young persons submitted to his attention, he always has his Faith as an excuse. He has done an immense amount of good. He was appointed Lord...
...British bishops are entitled to be addressed as "my lord." Besides the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, have permanent seats in the House of Lords. Twenty-one other bishops sit by ecclesiastical election...