Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Submission. All week long the British authorities in Cairo conferred with Premier Ziwar over the British demands as contained in the ultimatum delivered by Lord Allenby. In the end the Egyptian Premier agreed to accept all the British demands. Whereupon the British evacuated the Alexandria Customs House which they had seized when Premier Zaghlul refused to accept in toto the British ultimatum. Lord Allenby, British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, reported the situation "in good order," conditions "easier and satisfactory...
Effendi corresponds roughly to the English Sir. Actually it means master or lord and is given to members of the professions and upper classes who have no higher rank. Effendim (my master) is used by servants to their employers...
...those greeting this play, the second of the Theatre Guild's season. Never, in the history of the Theatre Guild, has the demand for seats been so importunate. Never has an author had more cause to be complacent than has Sidney Howard, nor an actress and actor than Pauline Lord and Richard Bennett...
...sure, and one that detracts only slightly from the aggregate rejoicing. Yet this note is sufficient to persuade these sceptics that They Knew What They Wanted is not a great play and that the performance of Mr. Bennett is undeserving of hysterical superlative. Of the performance of Miss Lord too much can scarcely be said, and therein lies the situation...
...present play substantiates their judgment. So brilliantly did she play the part, so perfectly defined were her weaknesses and pathos, so irresistible her reading of the wistful lines that she swept the audience from its mental moorings. It is the opinion of these skeptics that to Miss Lord alone is due the thorough public triumph...