Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Mackenzie King, by allying himself with the Progressives, might well continue as Premier with a "minority Government," as did Britain's only Labor Premier, Macdonald. Thus it was that Premier King, although "defeated," refused to resign. He announced that he would "discuss the situation with the Governor-General, Lord Byng, and then make a statement" of his intentions...
...London it was announced that the Right Honorable Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, M. P., only son of Lord Halifax (Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales) has been appointed Viceroy of India, to succeed Lord Reading upon the latter's announced retirement next April...
They recalled that to the name of Rufus Daniel Isaacs he added the style of Baron, Viscount and Earl, during the War. And though his mother was born "a simple Cohen," and his father was "a merchant in the City of London," he himself became Lord Chief Justice of England as early as 1913. As President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. in 1915, Special Envoy thither in 1917, and High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. later in that year, he well earned the titles subsequently conferred upon him by carrying...
Many years ago Gladstone said, "... the young man with the true parliamentary manner is Edward Grey." It is the parliamentary manner that permeates his Twenty-Five Years.* Just as Lord Grey† knew how to manage and impress the House of Commons, which was not by the brilliance of his oratory but by his obvious sincerity, so he has managed his material and has created two impressive books, which are matched in their importance only by the conviction they carry...
...Died, Lord Ribblesdale, 71, "last of the picturesque peers of the Victorian era," in London (see Page...