Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward I. Edwards, Senator and Democrat from New Jersey, appeared upon the floor of the Senate with a newspaper clipping. In the clipping Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Budget, was quoted as saying, "I don't care what the people think of me or the budget." In fine forensic style Senator Edwards vented his feelings...
...which has created much discussion, and attracted high praise and severe condemnation. Werner's "Brigham Young" treats in a light but serious manner the extraordinary story of Mormonism and one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. John Marquand has written an entertaining but slightly padded account of "Lord Timothy Dexter," the freak of Newburyport, and Isaac Goldberg an interesting and elaborate life of "The Man Mencken." Earl Grey's "Memoirs" relate, among other things, what he is willing to tell of the British foreign relations at the outbreak of the War. Dr. Harvey Cushing has written an exhaustive...
Paul Whiteman, expansive Lord High Conductor of U. S. jazz, last week repressed his exuberant instruments heroically. He calmed the mourning, muted trumpet, put brakes on the slide trombone, and made them all tell stories. One story was written by Deems Taylor, jazz-appreciating classicist ? the story of circus day in a one-cylinder town. The other story went deeper, or bravely tried to. It was by rhapsodic George Gershwin, to whom jazz comes as readily as a new suit to a chamelon. It was of a murder in a Harlem speakeasy: love, passion, hate and a dark...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-Pauline Lord still showing how a waitress may marry an old farmer from loneliness and run into a lot of trouble...
...keen eyes sparkling, clipping words contrary to his usually calm setting forth of arguments as purely intellectual concepts, refuted charges and implications, recalled that "Desdemona's handkerchief in hands other than her own became a wanton's gift to her paramour in the eyes of her suspicious lord...