Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl Reading, Viceroy and Governor General of India, arrived in England on leave of absence to confer with the Secretary of State for India, Lord Birkenhead. It is the first time in history that a Viceroy has left India during his term of office...
...reasoned, therefore, that an example would be made of the Maharaja and that he would be dethroned (as was his father, in 1903, by Lord Curzon) in favor of his 14-year-old son. The difficulties in the way of doing this are enormous. On the one hand, there is a large section of Hindu opinion to be reckoned with; and on the other, the Hindus and all India have again to be reminded that British justice takes into account nautch girls and low-caste merchants. Undoubtedly, the Maharaja must go. Rufus Daniel Isaacs (Lord Reading) was born in London...
...began his political career as Liberal M. P. for Reading; and under Premier Asquith (now Lord Oxford), became first Solicitor General with a knighthood, then Attorney General with a seat in the Cabinet-the first Attorney General to be so honored...
...therefore, refuse to permit another issue of the Bean Pot unless the entire editorial board is changed, and I am so advising the business manager and associates. I shall ask Dean Warren to discuss your standing with the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts. "'Yours sincerely, "'Everest W. Lord...
Copies of this resolution have been sent to Dean Lord and to Miss Perkins...