Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NATIONS OF TODAY. GREAT BRITAIN?Edited by John Buchan? Houghton Miflinin?Two volumes ($5.00 each). These two books are part of the world history now being written by eminent experts, prepared by Major General Lord Edward Gleichen, edited by John Buchan...
...mass (or "Lord's Supper") the priest blesses or consecrates a certain physical amount of bread or wine or both for distribution to the participants in the holy feast. (In the Roman Catholic Church, only the priest drinks of the wine; in the Protestant Churches, the communicants may also drink thereof.) If the total amount of bread and wine so consecrated is not consumed by those attending the service, these "elements" may be "reserved." That is, having been blessed, the bread is put into some sacred place and may later be "adored" by the worshippers. That is called "reservation...
...House of Lords. Lord Parmoor,* Lord President of the Council, assured their lordships that the Labor Government had no intention of abandoning the Sudan. Apparently, the impending visit to London of Saad Zaghlul Pasha, Premier of the Egyptian Government, had stirred up fearful forebodings in their lordships' bosoms...
...Lord Parmoor, family name Cripps, is a white-haired septuagenarian with something of the good looks and all of the intelligence of the late Lord Morley. He was Attorney General to King Edward when Edward was Prince of Wales. He combines the ecstatic with the prosaic, interests himself in ecclesiastical questions and farming...
Despite these preparations Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian Tuchun (War Lord), through whose territory the railway runs, averred that he will not hand over the railway unless Russia redeems 200,000,000 worthless paper rubles paid to Chinese workmen for their labor on the road...