Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Rector of Glasgow University is elected triennially by the students, who vote in "nations" according to the part of Scotland in which they were born. Technically, the Lord Rector is a member of the governing body of the University. Actually, the office is conferred as a mark of honor upon some distinguished...
...Lord Curzon of Kedleston...
...Famed Lord Rectors at St. Andrews have included: James A. Froude, 1872; James Russell Lowell, 1883; Andrew Carnegie. 1905; J. M. Barrie...
...Victoria Station he was met by the King, the Queen, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Mary, Viscount Lascelles and the Duchess of York. Behind them waited Premier Baldwin and most of his Cabinet, the Lord Mayor of London and many another...
Once, with the Marquis of Queensbury and Lord de Clifford as judges, before a crowd that had torn down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...