Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of a great lady, married to a respectable lord, and trying (out of noble motives) to conceal a long-past love affair. She is unaware that her illicit child still lives to commemorate her indiscretions...
...affect in many quarters; the novel, the drama, biography, history, sociology, criminology, anthropology and primary education have all been touched by it for better or for worse. At the present day we are witnessing a momentously critical change in the attitude of mankind. Three hundred years ago Lord Bacon formally inaugurated the scientific era, and man turned his face from God to the natural world. Today the emphasis upon the study of nature as a physical world is being to some extent replaced by an emphasis upon the study of human nature as a physical world. Backed by the methodology...
Letters of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, and Lord Macaulay and to this interesting collection of autographs. Two other letters of historical significance is one of William of Prussia who later became the Emperor William the First of Germany and one of Catherine the Great of Russia. The note of the former is amusing in its content, asking that special provision may be made by the addressee to allow the writer's sister and aunt who are under quarantine for scarlet fever to attend a ball...
...original copy of one of Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son as well as several miniature books written by Charlotte Bronte during her childhood are included by one case which further shows the variety and worth of this unusual collection of Miss Lowell...
...grudged the fantastic Jew. Thirteen years his senior, she pampered him with parties, and medicines, and peacocks screeching on the terrace; and in his gratitude Disraeli forgot her social gaucheries, forgave her boast that Greek sculpture paled before "my Dizzy in his bath." Meanwhile Mrs. Gladstone was relieving her lord that he might deal with Ireland and Egypt and the Liberal Party while she answered lesser demands: "Could you order some toothbrushes cheap for the Orphanage . . . grapes for Mrs. Bagshawe . . . Bible prints . . . schoolroom easels...