Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call to your attention that the library sold was merely Lord Leverhulme's art reference library...
...state that the purchasers of the books were, like the late Lord Leverhulme, merely on the lookout for pictures with which to nourish their childish minds and that they cared little for literature, basing your assertion on the sale of a Thackeray first edition for $6. Has it occurred to you that the Thackeray might be worth only $6 ? And certainly you can have no objection to printing correctly the names of Messrs. Thomas Rowlandson and Henry Alken, two of the greatest caricaturists of all times...
...Carmania. They were eight British workingmen. One was a patternmaker, one a boilermaker, one a blacksmith, one a toolmaker, one a molder, one an ironworker, one fitter, one a "machine man." They came to the U. S. for four weeks on invitation of the London Daily Mail, one of Lord Rothermere's papers. They are eight actual workers, not labor leaders, sent to examine working conditions, wages and industrial methods in the U. S. The newspaper is paying all their traveling expenses, paying their wives ( who remain at home) the men's usual wages, giving the men $100 each...
...First Sea Lord Churchill used to drive gouty Admirals to distraction, by asking them suddenly, now and then: "What would you do if war were declared tomorrow?" He used to gaze nervously each morning at a chart on which the exact position of every major ship of every navy in the world was shown. And he used to make extremely hot-headed speeches advocating his "Home Rule" Irish policy...
...Scriptures in faith and conduct, and the sovereignty of the in dividual conscience in the interpretation of the word of God. As a polity they recognize Christ as the only head of the church and source of all power, and the people of Christ as entitled unde their Lord to participation in the government and administration of the church. Their disciples consider one another equals. Their pastors are peers. Church government lies not in the hands of individuals but in representative courts - the session, the presbytery and the general assembly for Presbyterians; the consistory, the classis and the general synod...