Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jewels"; at Conrad Nagel who, told that his sweetheart has married in his absence, exclaims: "Then I'm too late!"; at a sister shaking a dying boy to bring him back to life; at the Hollywood conception of a Paris sewer; at a supposedly French priest reciting the Lord's Prayer with an Irish twang. Issued by the producers responsible for the development of the Vitaphone The Redeeming Sin reverts unaccountably to the shakiest adolescence of cinema technique...
...loan of more than 200 million dollars; but austere, reserved, patrician "Mr. Morgan" quietly arranged the Anglo-French loan of a half-billion dollars in 1915. It is said that the Allies wanted to borrow a round billion at that time; but Mr. Morgan led the British fiscal representative, Lord Reading, into his sanctum, and thoughtfully observed: "Reading, I wouldn't ask a billion if I were you. I think you'd best limit the issue to half a billion...
Interpreting this as a veiled intimation that what the "farm bloc" really demands is Indian independence, Lord Irwin rushed to Calcutta and delivered what was, for an Englishman, a remarkably passionate pronouncement...
Having spoken, the tall cadaverous Viceroy stepped into his sumptuous private car and sped back to New Delhi, the glistening white and red sandstone capital of British India. There Lord Irwin busied himself in arranging a counter demonstration against Independence. Naturally it was to the Maharajas, the princes of India, many of whom are supported on their petty thrones by British might, that the Viceroy turned. Presently no less than 40 of these resplendent potentates addressed, to the Chamber of Princes in New Delhi, most powerful pronouncements against what several of them called "the menace of independence." Each little Raja...
Married. Rachel Spender-Clay, 21, of London, granddaughter of the first Lord Astor (the late William Waldorf Astor of Manhattan); and the Honorable David Bowes-Lyon, 26, brother of Elizabeth, Duchess of York; in London...