Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth session of Canada's 14th Dominion Parliament. As in the Parliament at Westminster (TIME, Dec. 22), the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was despatched to summon His Majesty's faithful Com mons to the Senate, there to hear His Majesty's representative, Governor-General Lord Byng, read the message of His Majesty's Canadian Government from His Majesty's Canadian throne. Arriving at the entrance to the Commons, Black Rod found the door closed ; he struck three times with his rod, demanded to be let in. Inside, the "faithful Commons" went through...
...stay with the Kelloggs; he too got wined and dined. The most important and at once the most brilliant of these functions was a dinner given by the Kelloggs in their ambassadorial home (Crewe House) to King George and Queen Mary. To this brilliant function, a long line of lords and ladies was invited-the Londonderrys, the Greys, the Oxfords and Asquiths, the Desboroughs, Lord Cowdray, Lady Leicester, Lord Colebrook, Lady Northcote, Premier and Mrs. Baldwin and Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Chamberlain. Among the Americans present were Ambassador Herrick, Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Cora, Countess of Strafford, Lady...
...Margaret MacDonald* and Mary Middleton Baby Clinic. The price is one penny (Id) which is written in this case Id(onation)-one donation. In the first issue, Miss Ishbel wrote a leading article about the baby clinic. Other contributors were U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, ex-Lord Chancellor Haldane, General Sir Frederick Maurice, ex-Premier Mac-Donald. The latter was commissioned by his daughter to write on marriage. He wrote in humorous complaint. "I must obey; yet what can I say on this all-important subject?" and proceeded: "We make a great mistake when we assume that...
...Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace
...band that struck up Lord Jeffrey Amherst at a directors' meeting...