Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them wore waistcoats. Newsgatherers in the lobby were about to mistake them for businessmen on an economic mission when they recognized Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, leading the procession back into the president's office. Also recognized were Rev. David G. Wylie, Lord's Day Alliance president, and Rev. Harry Laity Bowlby, its secretary. Ranged around President Hoover, they made six small speeches each asking the President's support for a Sunday closing law for Washington, where baseball, cinema, sports, now enliven the Sabbath. "Thank you for calling," said the President...
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...King-Emperor is one of the six or seven finest wing shots in England. To console him for the loss of the Scotch shooting, the Sandringham gamekeeper announccd that Sandringham coverts are unusually well-stocked this year. Last week Lord Stamfordham, the King's private secretary, ordered a pair of guns a few ounces lighter than those His Majesty used before his illness, from Purdey, famed gunsmith...
...quarter-length lead. Trinity answered, drew level. Both shells were even 150 yards from the finish. Both spurted. Browne & Nichols spurted fastest. That afternoon they raced the Thames Rowing Club, won by a length and a quarter. They were later to be presented to Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, the Lord Mayor of London, King George. Browne & Nichols is almost exclusively a Harvard preparatory school. Harvard men last week rejoiced at the prospect of a sequence of Harvard rowing victories after the Henley champions matriculate...