Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceedings were begun by Grand Rabbi Abraham Kuk, who pronounced a prayer. Dr. Weizmann declared the University open. Sir Herbert Samuel conveyed the good wishes of the British Government. Then, Lord Balfour arose and, as he did so, some 16,000 feet kept time to some 16,000 gesticulating arms waved by their cheering owners. Minutes passed before the distinguished speaker could speak. The ovation was such that the walls of the amphitheatre and the crowded boughs of nearby trees were endangered. At length?silence...
...Lord Balfour spoke in his best Eton and Cambridge manner, dwelt upon the significance of the event in which all were participating and which had brought people from all the earth's cubbyholes. He touched briefly on the history of the surrounding sights and asseverated: "A new epoch has begun within the Palestine which came to an end so many hundred years ago." There followed some remarks on the idea of a Western University run on Western methods in an Eastern country and upon the beauty but questionable utility of the Hebrew language with which the Earl professed himself unacquainted...
...days later, Lord Balfour left Jerusalem for a tour of the Esdraelon colonies to the north. Of the Arabs, who had stood quietly aloof during the whole visit, many regretted their stand, for they said they held the Earl in high regard and would have liked to extend their traditional courtesies. But, they pointed out, the only pacific means at their disposal for giving vent to their disapproval of British policy was to follow the course adopted in the hope of awakening sympathy for their cause...
...Pales- tine was conquered by the Turks, from whom little more than 400 years later the country was delivered by General Allenby. And now, after nearly 2,000 years of exile and persecution, the Jews (who have supplied the world inter alia with Spinoza, Disraeli, Lord Reading, Albert Einstein, the Rothschilds) are free to go back to the Land which Jehovah promised them...
...Bourke O'Malley saw in her white religious robes in the convent garden. She saw a fine young sunburned soldier, and his speech was gentle. So she gave over being Sister Ursula and became Joan O'Malley, religious no longer, though she had given herself in marriage to her Lord Christ Jesus...