Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Justice Avery. In summing up, the Judge said that there was no doubt about the statements being libelous, and the only question was: Were they true? "Lord Alfred complains that his learned counsel has been hindered in putting his case before the Court. I am bound to say that in the course of my long experience I do not believe that any counsel in any court has ever been allowed greater latitude than has been allowed in this case. Mr. Hayes indulged in a mixture of the diatribe of politicians and vituperative abuse of Mr. Winston Churchill...
Impending productions in London are: Lord Adrian by Dunsany, Monckton Hoffe's The Lady Cristilinda, The Perfect Fit (adapted from the American A Tailor-Made Alan) and a revival of Paddy the Next Best Thing. During the holidays Gladys Cooper, the most popular actress in England, will play the annual Peter Pan revival. Miss Cooper comes to America in March for production in a few of her most noted London successes...
...long time it was supposed to be indigenous to the sun only, but in 1895 Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), the brilliant British chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1904, isolated the element from the earth, shortly after he had similarly found argon, in collaboration with Lord Rayleigh. Later it was discovered by Becquerel, the Curies, Rutherford, Soddy and other experts in radioactivity, that the so-called "alpha particles," little groups of four "protons" and two "electrons" given off regularly by uranium and similar substances in their process of degeneration, are in reality atoms of helium. To isolate helium...
Then came another war. The San Francisco Chronicle sent him to Cuba as correspondent in the Santiago campaign. He was wounded, contracted a fever, but had hardly grown well when he started for South Africa and the Boer War. It was from that time that his close friendship with Lord Kitchener was said to date...
Died?Thomas George Lord Shaughnessy, 71, Chairman of the Canadian Pacific Railway, director of a wide range of enterprises from banking to horse racing, in Montreal, of heart failure...