Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart U. S. Citizens hummed thus, last week, as they perused a private letter or two containing delicious details of the recent London marriage of England's cherubic Lord High Chancellor, Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. For one thing this extremely select wedding was attended by only 60 guests, the press and the public being barred. For another it took place in King Henry VII's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, the most gloriously Gothic and splendid shrine in England. Moreover the license was the first to be issued by the new Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
English jurists were still arguing hotly, last week, whether the Lord High Chancellor did not break the common law of England when he had Henry VII's Chapel roped off for his wedding. The law is explicit. The ceremony must take place with open doors because, at any moment someone may need to rush in and state why the marriage should not take place...
...case of potent Baron Hailsham, however, people merely hummed another snatch of the Lord Chancellor's song...
Little Domini Lawrence is the daughter of widowed Hon. Mrs. Clive Lawrence who was married to the Lord High Chancellor, himself a widower. Little Domini came to the wedding dressed all in primrose yellow, with a primrose yellow hat edged with white fur. Awed by the sombre splendor of the great chapel?where Knights of the Bath worship?Little Domini sat mouse quiet as long as she could. Suddenly it seemed to occur to her that so much pomp deserved at least one question...
Stifling their mirth, the 60 august personages managed to issue forth in good order. Some even gravely contrasted the ceremony with the wedding of Lord Hailham's father...