Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is danger of an overturn in Germany at any time this winter", said Associate Professor Robert H. Lord '06, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The republic is not considered a success...
...select the three questions most discussed in connection with Harvard in the present year of our Lord they would almost assuredly be (1) the prominence of athletics; (2) the size of the college; and (3) the same old indifference. They have made the fortunes of at least two paper manufacturers; they may create in the near future, as many radio kings. And yet one man, according to the Christian Science Monitor, has the temerity to group all three issues in one speech...
Many other speakers of note followed Bishop Manning, including George W. Wickersham, quondam U. S. Attorney General. It was noticed that there were gathered into this one fold, the Fundamentalists and Modernists. The Conservative and Liberal Christians of the Church of the Lord, were peaceful as lambs, having shed their lion's raiment. In connection with the finishing of the Cathedral a drive for $15,000,000 was started by a national committee, of which Franklin D. Roosevelt is the acting head. Money will not be spent while building prices are at their present sky-high level...
...Lord Beaverbrook's opinion of an American newspaper...
...Lord Beaverbrook, who with Lord Rothermere comprises the heavenly and omnipotent twins of British journalism, passed through Manhattan en route to his Canadian home. He was caught in passage by a reporter of The New York Times, who elicited this declaration from him: "The New York Times has set a standard far ahead of that maintained by publications of a similar character in Great Britain. I regard it as the greatest newspaper in the world. If it wields a great influence at home and abroad it is perhaps because The New York Times never pontificates...