Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Director of the Budget Lord recommended to Congress an appropriation of $50,000 for mending leaks in the roof, insulating electric wires and replacing sagging beams in the White House...
Opium. The International Opium Conference adjourned its deliberations, began to study the draft of the Anti-Narcotics Convention, the monument which the Conference erected to its imperishable memory. The chief British delegate, Lord Cecil, returned to England...
...recent lecture a Harvard professor said: "Lord Kelvin, while at the University of Glasgow, neglected his students and did a great many worth while things for the world." Many a professor has found it useful to observe Lord Kelvin's distinction between "students" and "worth while things...
...answer to a demand for surrender, telling the Riff leader in Arabic vernacular to go and eat coke; but circumstances alter cases, and Raisuli went so far to the other extreme as to offer his youngest daughter in marriage to Abd who, apparently, accepted the offer. But Raisuli, Lord of the Mountains, as he was called, was not to get off so easily. Abd ordered him and his family transferred to the Riff country, the rough mountainous district in the interior of the Spanish Moroccan zone. Allegedly, he is to stand trial by court martial for high treason. The verdict...
...Diplomatic Corps. Fifteen years later, he was First Secretary of Legation at Cairo and, in 1910, was promoted Italy's Minister Plenipotentiary and Diplomatic Agent at the same place. It was in this latter capacity that he became a warm and trusted friend of the late Field Marshal Lord Kitchener...