Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roars of approbation greeted "tapping" of Lawrence M. Noble of Syracuse, N. Y., first man chosen by Skull and Bones; of Guy Richards of Woodmere, N. Y., first man for Scroll and Key; of John C. Lord of Tarrytown, N. Y., first man for Wolf's Head; and of Van Buren Taliaferro of Manhattan, first for Elihu Club. The even greater honors of being 15th and last man "tapped" for the four societies (in the order named) fell respectively to Philip W. Bunnell of Scranton, Pa., Hannibal Hamlin of Brooklyn, James G. Butler of Hartford, Conn., and George...
...baseball team will leave by boat for New York, from where it will entrain for Princeton to face the Tiger nine in a return engagement tomorrow. Since the debacle of a week ago Coach Mitchell has shaken things up a bit with the hope of gaining increased hitting strength. Lord, star first baseman of the Freshmen a year ago, has displaced the veteran at first. The Sophomore lacks experience, but he is a natural hitter, and about on a par in fielding with his rival. BATTING INCREASES WHILE FIELDING DROPS...
...unsurpassed by any long novel in the world." It is known of the author that she served as a lady in waiting in a family that possessed a copy of the so-called Gossamer Diary, a long, romantic account of private joys and sorrows written by a mistress whose lord preserved it after her death. This diary was doubtless the structural model for Genji. Publication as we know it was unknown in 1000 A. D., even in Japan. The earliest Genji texts are a series of handwritten rolls prepared for great families; the first printed edition dates...
Lethargic folk, who have not read Admiral Lord Fisher's Memories, are sure to jump when Mr. Bakeless reminds them that as long ago as 1907 "it seemed to Admiral Fisher [then First Sea Lord] simply a sagacious act on England's part to seize the German fleet when it was so very easy of accomplishment . . . probably without bloodshed...
...everyone knows, Edward VII squelched Lord Fisher's ambitious scheme to seize the navy of a "friendly" power during what Mr. Bakeless calls "the piping times of peace...