Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Master Robert II Lord Airlie...
...House of Lords. "DieHard" and hard-shell Peers attacked the proposed recognition of the Russian Soviet Government. Lord Emmott said that the British Government's well-meant gesture had received a contemptuous, almost insulting reception from Zinoviev (Chairman of the Third Internationale). He said that a Russian memorandum to a London financial group demanded a loan of ?20,000,000 to ?30, 000,000 as a condition of the return of confiscated property in Russia. Lord Curzon, onetime Foreign Secretary, charged the Soviets with backing Sinn Fein in Ireland, training Indian extremists in Moscow for the special purpose...
Winston Churchill's novel, "The Crisis," and Owen Wister's story, "The Virginian," were two other of the ten favorite books, and among the authors who received many votes were Jack London, whose "Call of the Wild" appeared to be the favorite among his novels; Lord Bryce, with "Modern Democracies," Thomas Hardy, with "The Dynasts," William Allen White, who owed his place to the vogue of his tale of "A Certain Rich Man," Louis Hemon, with his Canadian story, "Maria Chapdelaine," Ernest Poole, May Sinclair, Hamlin Garland, Zona Gale, and Rabindranath Tagore...
...described as "Churchill's circus." He aimed to bring out the large non-voting electorate to choose him in a rock-ribbed Conservative stronghold. He must split the Conservative vote to beat the Laborite whom he officially opposed, and he had the backing of so influential a Conservative as Lord Balfour...
...Chief of the consulting canon-lawyers in Islam, sometimes known as Lord of the Faith...