Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large part to the French protective tariff, was promptly taken up in London by the many onetime English free traders who have now turned protectionist. The most potent of these is Baron Melchett, foremost British Chemical and Industrial Tycoon (TIME, Oct. 29). Speaking in London last week Lord Melchett alluded to the Cahill Report and belligerently said...
Among the eight paintings, also are a portrait of the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor under Charles II, of Justice Abney of the Court of Common Pleas under George II, and Sir Nathan Wright, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under William and Mary...
Besides a large collection of true paintings the Law School has obtained a group of over 200 cartoons of various British legal lights. They range in importance from the police court magistrate of London, to the Lord Chief Justice, and Prime Minister Disraeli, but all are shown in positions neither dignified nor flattering. They were drawn for "Vanity Fair" by two cartoonists who called themselves "Ape" and "Spy." Proudly looking down on this "rogue's gallery" are oil portraits of Daniel Webster, of the class of 1804, John Marshall, Rufus Choate, of the class of 1845, and James Bradley Thayer...
...British was over the same route. The troops which were able to cross Charles River at the foot of what is now Boylston Street owing to the negligence of the patriots, who failed to destroy the timbers of the bridge after removing them, was the relief column led by Lord Percy, the arrival of which at Lexington saved the British from being wiped out. This relief came as a result of the request of Major Pitcairn when he discovered at Lexington by the presence of the Minute Men drawn up on the Green, that advance information had been given...
...these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." Among other scriptural writings contained in the tvillim are these: "This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt" (Exodus, XIII, 6), and "What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments as righteous as all this law?" (Deuteronomy...