Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Authors. Joseph P. Marquand fellow-townsman of Lord Timothy Dexter, took rank in U. S. letters with Black Cargo, a well-told tale of the slave trade. His present work, eked from scanty material, suffers slightly from padding but maintains a sardonic flavor well suited to the subject...
...majolica. He bought Correggio's Holy Family, Filippino Lippi's most celebrated Madonna and Child, works by Duerer, Van Cleff, Mabuse, Van Dyck. Unfortunately, Collector Chiesa's funds were not inexhaustible. He ordered more than he could pay for. His collection, like that of the late Lord Leverhulme, will be put on sale in Manhattan this season. The sale will be probably the largest to be held in this country, at least since the Yerkes sale in 1910, which brought...
Subsequent discussion before the congress covered a wide range of topics and was more soothing to ecclesiastical consciences. Lord Eustace Percy delivered an innocuous discourse on "Education as a World Problem", and a great deal of attention was paid to several speeches upon...
...manuscripts is an original draft of the opening chapters of Conrad's "Lord Jim," one of the author's most brilliant psychological studies of character. The paper is much interlined, and shows what extensive changes were made by the author before the final draft was sent to the publishers. A comparison of the manuscript with the printed page is made easy by the way the manuscript is placed in the Treasure Room exhibit, the original draft and a printed volume being placed side by side...
...Lord put it into the hart of one Mr. Harvard, who dyed woorth 1600 pounds, to give halfe his estate to the erecting of the schoole. The man was a scholar and plous in his life and enlarged toward the country and the good of it in life and death...