Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Food-and-fun-loving Charles Dickens told unctuously in A Christmas Carol how "The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks" for just such a feast as the City of London spread before Edward of Wales last week...
When the Chamber of Princes had signified unanimous approval of these sentiments, Lord Irwin solemnly declared that this resolution was the most important which the Chamber had ever adopted...
...came as the lord spiritual, and for the first time since 1870 as the lord temporal. "Il Papa! Il Papa Consolatore!" chanted the kneeling multitude, "The Pope! The Pope Consoler!" Amid out bursts of the purest ecstasy the supreme pontiff then performed the miracle of the high mass, transforming things inanimate into the veritable body and blood...
...London, "Father of the British Navy"; in London. Admiral Fremantle was the only surviving flag officer born in the reign of William IV. He entered the Royal Navy in 1849, serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland (1916). "When you see ships," he stated, "you are supposed...
...common stock of seven British power companies which serve more than 1,000,000 Britishers in 95 English and Scotch communities. Shrewd, diplomatic, the U. S. operators secured the Earl of Birkenhead as the head of their new British interests. Since the Earl of Birkenhead was recently (1919-22) Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for India, his appointment was calculated to assuage British ill-feeling against U. S. economic invasion...