Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crossing the channel to Britain, one finds as dean of the distilling peers the venerable Baron Dewar. His whiskeys fire throttles on five continents. About him there is no paradox, no equivocation. To the core of his very liver Lord Dewar is a practicing and preaching wet. He claims that whiskey is his Muse. Without her stimulus the Noble Lord believes he never could have produced his famed "Dewarisms." Many persons consider this fact a most powerful argument against spirits. Observers may judge for themselves from sample "Dewarisms" from the latest batch proudly released by Baron Dewar...
...Majesty was further pleased to nominate Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; his Royal Highness the Duke of York; the most Reverend Father in God, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England; the Right Hon. Douglas McGarel, Baron Hailsham, Lord High Chancellor, and the Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister for the purposes therein mentioned and to declare that they should be designated under the style and title of Counselors of State...
Royal Warrant far surpassed the Order in Council. Plain Lord Hailsham and Mr. Baldwin became "Our right trusty and well beloved Counselor Douglas McGarel, Baron Hailsham, our Chancellor of Great Britain . . . and our right trusty and well beloved Counselor Stanley Baldwin, our Prime Minister and First Lord of our Treasury." The warrant was given "of our most especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion." The potent conclusion read...
Valuable manuscripts of Goldsmith which have been on display in the Widener Library Treasure Room during the past week have given way to medieval French paintings on the nativity, while a collection of letters of Lord Nelson is soon to be removed to make way for more copies of twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth century manuscripts and paintings...
...while the U.S. buys so little from France today as to stand in sixth place. This is but another way of saying that French goods are kept out of the U.S. by a tariff wall, and let into England by the fact that the Empire is not shielded as Lord Melchett would like to see it shielded...