Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought from the theatre for sound-cinema, has a long jaw, sly eyes and a good voice. When she was 14 she quit Mrs. Hazen's school at Pelham Manor, N. Y., to join a stock company playing in Washington, D. C. Later she supported Lowell Sherman, Pauline Lord, Lenore Ulric. She translated La Tendresse from the French, produced it herself and played the lead. She was in The Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles when Emil Jannings requested that she take a screen test, and picked her for Sins of the Fathers. She says she likes...
...House of Lords learned, last week, from Baron Gorell how to "gazoomph a sarker," "noise the edge," and "sling a gee." This information was imparted by the Noble Lord, after he had spent a month in English provincial towns, spying and eavesdropping upon the uncouth persons who hold bogus auctions...
Versatile Lord Gorell is the author of Babes in the African Wood, Rosamund and Plush. He was Under-Secretary for Air (1921-22), and President of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (1920-22). While thus employed he composed Love Triumphant, and other poems. Seven years ago he married, and two years ago, at 43, begot his only son and heir, the Hon. Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes-a lusty infant said to prefer a dash of sugar in his milk...
...standard, and that desertions from the U. S. Army would have been numerous. As the drama unfolds, the Emperor besieges Washington, which quickly falls. He then launches a prodigious war of conquest. "Within five years," patriotic Mayor Herriot has made Napoleon Emperor of the three Americas, great lord of all that lies between 'Alaska and the nethermost tip of Chile...
Have you ever heard of Lord Byron...