Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Curzon married first Mary Leiter, daughter of Levi Z. Leiter of Washington, D.C.; a widower, he married Grace Hinds, daughter of the late ]. Monroe Hinds, onetime U. S. Minister to Brazil, widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. The marquisate and earldom now become extinct. Richard Nathaniel Curzon, nephew, succeeds by "special remainder" to the Viscounty of Scarsdale. Lady Mary Irene Curzon, eldest daughter, and granddaughter of Levi Z. Leiter, becomes, also by special remainder, Baroness of Ravensdale in her own right...
...paper was said to be The Daily Graphic, daily illustrated paper equivalent to U. S. gum-chewers' sheetlets. Lord Curzon was, however, particularly fond of The Morning Post, owned by the Duke of Northumberland, and possibly it was this paper which printed the special edition...
...nominated a Council of State of four to rule in his name during his temporary absence. The four chosen were Prince Henry, Their Majesties' third son (who, rumor has it, is to become Duke of Edinburgh on the King's next birthday), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor (Lord Cave), the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin). They, or any two of them, were empowered to transact all the business usually transacted by the King, except the granting of titles or the dissolving of Parliament. And, "all and singular, archbishops, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, bishops, barons, baronets, knights...
Premier Baldwin took himself solemnly to his study in No. 10 Downing St., sat down, puffed his pipe, thought over selecting a successor to the late Lord Curzon as Lord President of the Privy Council...
...thought of Lord Balfour, the eldest of Britain's Elder Statesmen; Lord Derby, a popular figure in politics ; the Duke of Devonshire, austere, rotund. He thought of slightly reshuffling the Cabinet by making Lord Cecil, who is Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, or Lord Salisbury, who is Lord Privy Seal, Lord President of the Council. But he came to no decision...