Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite overawed the excited "cowpeople" were the London "bobbies;" they were not molested. British stockholders in various Anglo-American brewery companies formed an "Individual Liberty League" "to obtain from the United States Governnent for shareholders in Anglo-American breweries compensation for losses sustained through Prohibition." Earl Birkenhead, ex-Lord High Chancellor, was elected President of the League...
...annual dinner given by the Rhodes Scholars at Oxford, Lord Grey of Fallodon, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that the future of the world depended upon how far the U. S. and the British Commonwealth could pull together. He stated that common ideals and not a common language were the basis of agreement. He thought that both countries wanted the same kind of a world in which to live, and that the problems of both were not problems of republics or monarchies but problems of whether free government was to be maintained and liberty upheld...
...occasion, "Colonel Roosevelt" announced he was glad his name had been mentioned, said anything he could do to help in reforming the lunacy laws he would be happy to do, did not mind being called by the audience if it helped. "Lord Kitchener" said he regretted that the lunacy situation was as bad in Great Britain as in the U. S. "P. T. Barnum" mournfully stated that "he had atoned in Paradise for all his little indiscretions and his formula 'The public likes to be fooled.'" The medium's great-aunt, "Julia Ward Howe," related haltingly the embarrassment...
...World Conference† as follows: "Now we go forward to bear our testimony against all offensive war and to proclaim that the Hebrew prophets were not misguided fanatics when they foretold the swordless and spearless day of God. God has given us here the vision of a warless world. Lord, we go; and as we go, we preach...
...responded last week to the Apostles' Creed, saying simply: "I believe." On the following day he was judged by seven other Bishops to be a heretic. Sentence, soon to follow, will cut him off from the priesthood and forbid him to wear the garments of the Lord, which he has worn so very long...