Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rake" was Lord Charles Mohun, the original of the villain in Thackeray's Henry Esmond. Illustrated from old prints...
...Shrewd Englishmen of "The City"-London's "Wall Street"-weighed carefully what was said by Britain's chemical tycoon, Lord Melchett, upon his return last week from hobnobbing in U. S. tycoon-dom (TIME, Oct. 29). "American prosperity is based upon two factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly...
Speaking internationally, Lord Melchett predicted that the Globe would eventually be organized into three vast economic units, "probably the United States, the United Economic States of Europe and the British Empire." Observers wondered whether Prophet Melchett had overlooked Latin America and Asia, or whether he dares to imagine that they will merge into one of his "three units...
...drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers. Sir Joshua painted her against an expanse of foliage. Her parents paid him about $1,050. It meant nothing to debutante Betty. When she went home she called Sir Joshua "a pompous little man." Later she became Lady Cavendish, presented her Lord with eleven children, died...
When votes were counted Mr. Baldwin had 1,044, and his nearest rival, Scottish Nationalist Candidate Cunningham Graham 978. Prime Minister Baldwin succeeds his Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain as Lord Rector...