Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remembered donning a little black and white mourning frock for George IV, may he rest in peace. Last week, Britain mourned for her, and Britain had a right to mourn for the mother of so much of Britain's virtue: mother of Viscount Haldane of Cloan, twice Lord Chancellor; mother of Miss Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, scholar and first woman Justice of the Peace in Scotland; mother of Professor J. S. Haldane of Oxford; mother of Sir William S. Haldane, Crown Agent for Scotland; grandmother of Professor J. B. S. Haldane of Cambridge, famed biochemist. These were the fortune...
...King, accompanied by Queen Mary and Prince Henry, drove in semi-state to "the city" followed by a troop of the Royal Household Cavalry. At the Temple Bar, the Lord Mayor met their Majesties, surrendered to the King the keys of the City and the emblematic pearl sword of privileges. The royal party drove on to Leadenhall Street, where the King alighted from his carriage, smote a stone with a mallet, tested the stone's lie with a spirit-level, declared it "well and truly laid." The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone of a new building...
According to a despatch from Moscow, ex-War Lord Leon Trotzky was not elected a member of the Council of People's Commissars, as stated in TIME last week (Page 10, col. 1). It was expected that M. Trotzky would be made Commissar of Foreign Trade; but, at the eleventh hour, it was decided that any rearrangement of the Council would be interpreted abroad as a symptom of weakness. The election of Trotzky referred to last week was to the Federal Congress of Soviets. A report from Moscow, via Berlin, stated that Ivan Stalin was using Trotzky...
...will abstain from heresy-hunting, except as provided under the Church laws. But there was another candidate last year, Dr. Macartney of Philadelphia. He was not a mild, sweet-tempered, retiring, well-beloved professor. He was a vigorous younger preacher, ready to become a Lion of the Lord. His platform was a war a outrance upon all Liberals. And he was elected by a slim margin. This was due, partly, to William J. Bryan's advocacy. An important factor was that the attitude of many good church folk toward new ideas in religion had shifted from one of indifferent...
...Yale had not advanced a runner beyond second. Harvard's one good chance to score was in the third, when Crimson runners were stranded on third and second as Pollard struck out. In the eighth Captain Jones beat out a well placed bunt toward first base, Pollard sacrificed, and Lord doubled to let, Jones scoring with what appeared to be the winning...