Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private soldier in a shiny blue serge suit stood in the House of Lords last week and, grinning, plumped himself down on the woolsack, the oblong red cushion. traditional seat of the Lord Chancellor of Britain, and, next to the throne, the most honorable sit-spot in the empire...
...Selby Mannock, M.P. R. R. Wallstein '32 Lady Jane Mannock Betty Jean Crocker '30 Arthur Mannock Brinckerhoff Jackson '32 Freda Mannock Elizabeth Johnson Digby W. A. Richardson '32 Edward Eversley J. F. Joyce '32 Bertie Capp A. R. Goodman '32 John Reader R. H. Jones '30 Lord Carchester H. G. Meyer '30 Sally Jessica Hill...
...Julius Rosenwald, board chairman of Sears Roebuck Co. guaranteed the margin accounts of all his employes. Two days later Chicago's public utility tycoon and opera promoter Samuel Insull announced that he would do the same thing. And so did Samuel W. Reyburn, president of Manhattan's department store Lord & Taylor. But the climax came when the wizened little man who lives in the fortressed home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., said: "My son and I have for some days past been purchasing sound common stock." In memory of many a trader in Wall Street, John D. Rockefeller...
...Installation of Sir William Waterlow, new Lord Mayor of London...
...Author. Biologist John Scott Haldane, 69,* brother of the late Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane (onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), was born in Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Honorary Professor of the University of Birmingham. Outside the academic world, he has studied mining, scientific diving and the fetid depths of factories, has written on respiration, air analysis, ventilation...