Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alabama. Said he, in an immigration speech. "The distinguished Senator who looks to me like an English lord would not have been here if it had not been for some of his ancestors coming here from abroad many years...
Many political writers in Britain prophesied that the Liberals would eventually split, part joining the Laborites, part the Conservatives. In this event the recent prediction of Lord Rothermere (British newspaper king) that the Liberal Party would disappear will have been fulfilled...
...members have been great men, statesmen, diplomats, generals; two were Popes, Gelasius II (Giovanni Caetani 1118-1119), Boniface VIII (Benedetto Caetani 1294-1303). His father held many titles; his mother was an Englishwoman, Ada Wilbraham, niece of the then Lord Derby...
...communion service - otherwise known as the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper-was conducted by radio for the first time in history. The service was broadcast from the West End Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, through WJZ, after a sermon by the British evangelist, G. Campbell Morgan. The elements, bread and wine, were blessed by the pastor, Edwin Keigwin.† The invisible audience did not partake until all had been served, so that all present in the church might partake simultaneously with those who served themselves bread and wine at home. While the elements were passed, the organ was audibly played...
...think that the Labor Party is made up entirely of rather impetuous extremists is the greatest mistake possible" Mr. Golding pointed out. "In Lord Haldane, the Lord Chancellor of the cabinet, Labor has one of the greatest of living scholars and statesmen. The Minister for Foreign Affairs was a page at the court of Queen Victoria, and the Government has a cabinet at present which has only once been equalled and never surpassed in the last 50 years. Mr. MacDonald is himself trying to life the peace," he concluded, "as Mr. Wilson lifted the war, from the plane of sordid...