Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, defended the increased naval appropriations (TIME, Mar. 23) in a spirited speech. He went over a lot of old ground and became interesting only when he arrived at the tail end of his speech and found himself at Singapore. He saw no offense to Japan in building the base. He accused the Labor Party of dropping the project as a gesture to get other countries to cooperate in universal disarmament. He quoted an American as saying: "When you cooperate with people, you find they do the operating while...
...undefined malady, aggravated by congestion of the lungs, requiring the attendance of an urologist, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Earl of Kedleston, Viscount Scarsdale, Baron Ravensdale, Lord President of The Council, died last week in his London residence on Carlton House Terrace in the 67th year of his life...
...number of skeptical Manhattan bankers, with whom he was dining in a Fifth Avenue club, that he was being watched. He strode to the window and pointed down to several skulking Chinese waiting in the shadows. At London, he was kidnapped and released only through the mediation of Lord Salisbury...
First base is being contested by W. W. Lord from Andover, F. T. Waite from Winthrop High School, and Joseph Morrill Jr., captain of the Middlesex nine last year. The other infielders on Squad A are A. G. Pollard of Middlesex, five-year veteran of the team there and captain two years ago; Hamilton Heard, captain of the Groton School nine last year; B. W. Morris, who played three years at St. George's; R. I. Hunneman, third baseman from Noble and Greenough; and John Buttrick, who was on the Exeter squad last year...
...Reisner of the Harvard-Boston Egyptian Expedition has been careful to point out that the inscription: "Lord-of-the-Two-Crowns, Sneferuw, the Horns Neb Ma'at," which was discovered on the gold mat of the new tomb at Giza does not apply at all to the person buried there. The point is a nice one and well taken. Sneferuw probably was either a term of endearment or a bill of lading. It is altogether too colloquial and common a word to take its place beside the great unpronounceable of Egyptian anthology...