Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Than His Worship Sir Alfred Louis Bower, Lord Mayor of London and His Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster,* there are no better Roman Catholics in all Britain. Yet, mirabile dicta, both declined to attend, last week, a meeting of the Catenian? Association in London. The reason was quite simple?on the program, the toast to Pope Pius XI preceded the toast to King George...
...Prime Ministers are still dependent for salary upon holding some other position, usually that of First Lord of the Treasury, and it is as such, and not as Prime Minister, that they are entitled to a seat in the Cabinet. In 1905, however, King Edward VII granted the Premiership constitutional recognition by granting the holder precedence next to the Archbishop of York...
...epitaphery published in the press of the U. S. last week would have taken him longer to read. Merely a list of his sitters is a comprehensive British and U. S. Hall of Fame of the last half century. Statesmen like Woodrow Wilson, John Hay; men of affairs like Lord Ribblesdale, Theodore Roosevelt; actors, actresses like Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Ellen Terry; authors, educators, beauties, generals, industrialists. Though he announced in 1903 that he would paint no more portraits, he occasionally broke his rule, twice to make it possible for future generations to scrutinize the incomparable countenance...
Recently, the Board of Education at London settled the teachers' salary question by adopting Lord Barnham's proposal that women receive 83% of men's wages. Last week, the National Association of Schoolmasters met at Nottingham, condemned women teachers out of hand, said they were responsible for increase in juvenile crime, demanded that every boy over 7 be taught by men, declared that women were unable to understand or control boys...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -Pauline Lord performs a miracle of acting as the poor waitress who married a farmer by mail and could not resist his farmhand. , WHAT PRICE GLORY?-The most enduring portrait of all the many painted of wine, women and war on the Western Front...