Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman and the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty, threatened to resign unless more warships were built. They based their stand upon the indisputable fact that the existing fleet would in a few years be obsolete unless replacements were made more rapidly...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who strenuously fought the Admiralty chiefs, did not even offer to resign. Doubtless he remembered that his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had written finis to his political career in 1886 when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he suddenly made good his threat to resign, ostensibly because he also would not agree to the shipbuilding demands of the Admiralty. And who should be in a better position to learn the lesson which Lord Randolph neglected than his father's biographer, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Lord Cecil of Chelwood, better known as Lord Robert Cecil, was appointed President of the Board of Conciliation which is to deal with Norwegian-Danish disputes that cannot be settled through the usual diplomatic channels. Viscount Grey's Twenty-Five Years: 1892-1916, which is to be published in the U. S. in the fall, was reported to have fetched the highest price in years for a book of memoirs. Lord Grey was Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary from...
...Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain...
...asked critics. "Because five days is enough time for our men to train in; and if it is not enough, we cannot afford longer," replied the Britishers. "Why have you no coach?" asked pressmen. "For the same reason: we cannot afford one," said they. At Cambridge, Mass., blond David, Lord Burghley, heard a pistol pop, took a step, two, three, sailed over a white hurdle, repeated this bounding, this stepping for 120 yards, winning the first event for England...