Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...style that is distinctive of the "Gentlemen with a Duster." It champions Conservatism against both Liberalism and Socialism, and in so doing the language is direct, conclusive, partisan, brilliant. It is, or seems to be, a thousand pities that the author failed to include such Conservative personalities as Lord Curzon and the Duke of Devonshir. The dusting of these gentlemen might have disturbed the atmosphere at Westminster, convulsed the author with literary sneezes and choked the readers with amusement not unmixed with that grain of truth that invariably deserts the object and sticks to the duster...
...Council of the League of Nations, sitting at Brussels, Belgian capital, had a busy and significant week. Before it, appeared Fethi Bey, Turkish representative, and Lord Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, British representative, pledged to accept the decision of the Council on Turko-British dispute over the Irak-Turkish boundary (TIME...
...conditions are much better at the present time and will be further improved by the Conservative Party coming into power. I expect that Sir George Lloyd [ex-Governor of Bombay] will be the next Viceroy when Lord Reading retires, which will be in April, 1925, if not before...
...list of illustrations. The chapters are: I. A Middle-aged Merchant's First Experience with Jury Duty; II. History of Trial by Jury; III. Witnesses; IV. Lawyers; V. Lawyers; VI. Judges; VII. Judges; VIII. The Verdict; IX. Some Suggested Remedies. The list of illustrations includes: Joseph H. Choate, Lord Justice Braxfield, Lord Mansfield (of law merchant fame), Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, William F. Howe (Abe Hummel's partner), Scene at Trial of Carlyle W. Harris, Lord Gordon Hewart (present Lord Chief Justice of England), Lord Chief Justice Russell, Lord Chancellor Jeffreys, Trial of Sir William Armstrong, Recorder Frederick Smyth...
Died. Frances Hodgson Burnett, 75, authoress of many novels and creator of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), modeled after her own son; at Plandome, L. I., after three months' illness. She was married twice and resumed the name of Burnett acquired from her first husband (divorced) after the death of her second husband, Stephen Townsend. Her first literary success came when Godcy's Lady's Book published a story which she wrote...