Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Salandra, Italian representative of the Council of the League, declined to permit* the League to intervene in the Italo-Greek rumpus, stating that it was incompetent to do so. Among the number of protests at this attitude, the speech of Lord Robert Cecil was significant. He cited Articles X, XII, XV of the Treaty of Versailles (League Covenant). The words Treaty of Versailles " struck immediately everyone present." Lord Robert pointed out that the articles were to be found in the Treaties of St. Germain, Neuilly and Trianon; if they were disregarded " the whole settlement...
...Lord Leverhulme (wealthy manufacturer of Sunlight Soap) offered the Isle of Lewis to its inhabitants as a gift. He bought it in 1918 in the hope of " industrializing " the inhabitants, paid $700,000 for it. The inhabitants refused to coöperate with Lord Leverhulme, and, after spending several million dollars on improvements, he decided to give the place away...
...everybody who for any reason can't run, golf is an unimpeachable occupation. For responsible statesmen it is the best, and we always rejoiced when in far-off Coalition days we read of the prodigious putting performed at Cannes or elsewhere by Mr. Lloyd George, M. Briand, Lord Riddell and others of that gallant and now deconsidered galaxy of talent...
...Lord Birkenhead: "Weekending at Locust Valley, L.I., the guest of Paul D. Crayath (attorney), I played golf at Piping Rock with Percy R. Pyne, II, Harold S. Vanderbilt and another man. I wore a baby blue sweater and long dark trousers and smoked a fat cigar. At the ninth hole rain overtook...
Died. Sir William Purdie Treloar, Bart., 80, Lord Mayor of London, 1906-1907, at London. He founded the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples' Hospital and College in Hampshire, initiated a Christmas Guild Hall dinner for poor children in London and was known as "the Cripples' Friend" and "the Children's Lord Mayor...