Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present generation of Cecils there are four brothers: the fourth Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of the Privy Council in the Baldwin Cabinet; Lord William Cecil, Bishop of Exeter; Lord Hugh Cecil, noted Parliamentarian; Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of the Crown in many capacities, whose chief fame rests upon the work he has done in the cause of the League of Nations...
...Lord Robert Cecil, 59 years of age, is the third son of the third Marquis of Salisbury, and belongs to a family which has been consistently and unobtrusively distinguished since the days of Edward VI, when William Cecil, afterward Lord Burghley, became one of the King's Secretaries of State, and later served Queen Elizabeth as Lord High Treasurer of England. Thus for more than 300 years almost every generation of Cecils has given a great man to the State. His great-grandfather was Lord Chamberlain to George III; his grandfather, Lord President of the Privy Council in Lord...
...Lord Robert has been described as "silent, quiet, destitute of elegance, apparently absentminded, cold, courteous.'" A London newspaper said of him, that, being a Cecil, "he was denied by racial antecedents all capacity to excite himself." Lord Robert is a lawyer, and is as well versed in ecclesiastical as in international law. He is a devoted and sincere Christian, and has probably done as much to get people to go to church as has any living man. In spite of being so well equipped, he has devoted most of his days to politics and, as a result...
...Objections to the doctrine of the virgin birth or to the bodily resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ are not only contrary to the Christian tradition but have been abundantly dealt with by the best scholarship...
...spread everywhere. In journalism, however, one still looks for individualism and unhampered expression of opinion. Such fond fancies received a rude shock in England recently by the sale of the Hulton newspapers. These, numbering seven in all and published in London and Manchester, passed into the hands of Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook. The former is a brother of the late Lord Northcliffe and is said to have been mainly responsible for the latter's success. By the purchase he has now doubled the power of his more famous brother. The second, a self made Canadian, has, since...