Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more notable wedding presents" which poured in when his immense wealth was rendered fabulous by his marriage* to Hannah, only daughter and heiress of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild, in the presence of the Prince of Wales and many another. Mr. Gladstone passed on the torch of Liberalism to Lord Rosebery as perhaps his chief henchman, and from him it descended via Mr. Asquith to David Lloyd George. By way of picturesque funereal climax, the Earl of Rosebery served as pallbearer to Mr. Gladstone, to poet Tennyson, to painter Millais...
...night express to London, apparently none the worse for his spill. Encore. A day later Wales hunted in the Melton Mowbray country, this time with the famed Fernie hounds. With the pack at full cry, a very nasty hedge with a ditch on either side had to be taken. Lord Stalbridge, Master of the hunt, rode at the hazard, but suddenly pulled up as his horse showed signs of refusing to take the jump. Not so Edward of Wales. He crouched low, urged his mount to clear the first ditch and the hedge?was thrown heavily as his horse fell...
Atop the Hohenzollern chateau at Doorn, the imperial standard flaunted all day. The Lord Chamberlain (TIME, Nov. 30) was kept busy welcoming Dutch and German notables, who motored up to the estate with baskets of flowers and were either pressed to remain or turned away after being allowed to sign the "Complimentary Register" kept at the entrance to the lodge...
Finally, as dinner time approached, the expensive part of the entertainment was revealed. The Lord Chamberlain threw open the doors of the Frederick the Great Salon. Wilhelm strode proudly in; deigned to express by a gesture that the room had just been "newly furnished with beautiful bronzes, together with brocaded hangings" and many another embellishment imported from Germany...
...daily collaborator and authorized interpreter of our ideas has been an indefatigable aid under many heavy difficulties, but has been comforted by serving the cause of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ...