Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible contribution would be all or part of Lord (London Daily Mail) Beaverbrook's ?25,000 thanks offering, which he offered for having escaped serious injury last week in an automobile accident...
When a play has been publicly suppressed by Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain, it can still be privately performed before a "subscription audience." Last week such an audience of smart Londoners assembled unblushingly, rustling with anticipation, to see sardonic Alfred Savoir's suppressed drama The Lion Tamer or How the Englishman Was Eaten...
Strongest stomached English sophisticates opined that for once the Lord Chamberlain had suppressed wisely and aright...
...citizens. Each composition took less than five minutes when smartly played at the banquet by Nat Shilkret and his Victor orchestra. Next day both compositions were released on a record-Griselle's Nocturne and March on one side, Bloom's Bayou with its chorus of "Oh Lord, Please Take Away the Darkness" on the other. Victor calls it rightly a $15,000 record, tells purchasers on the jacket that "for more than a generation it has been the particular privilege of the Victor Company to satisfy all musical needs, and all musical tastes. Its ability...
...often as he pleases, tossing off his frothy extracts, granted he always prefaces them as well as this: "Almost all the plays in this book are religious, but religious in that dilute fashion that is a believer's concession to a contemporary standard of good manners. . . . Our Lord asked us in His work to be not only as gentle as doves, but as wise as serpents...