Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before his death, Lord Oxford completed the reminiscences, which he had been writing for several years. This long-awaited work by the man who was British Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916 is unquestionably one of the most important autobiographies of the year...
...Lord Melchett, better known as Sir Alfred Mond, internationally famed British industrial magnate, has agreed to speak before the second year class in the Graduate School of Business Administration next Tuesday on "The British Chemical Industry." He will give the address in Room 100, Baker Library, at 5 o'clock...
...Lord Melchett was raised to the peerage last May as a recognition of his contributions to British industry. Sir Alfred was the Minister of Health in the MacDonald Labor ministry and is a fellow of the Royal Society. He is the President of the giant corporation known as the Imperial Chemical Industries. In addition to speaking at Harvard, he will talk to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and will be entertained at a private affair in his honor, during his stay in Boston and Cambridge...
...Moderator in that church be permitted to ask politely by what right or authority Dr. Walker assumes this 'Temporal Dominion' in the United States? ... I have not the pleasure of knowing Mr. Volstead personally, but I am unwilling to believe that he is wiser or better than the Lord Jesus Christ, who not only used wine but . . . made...
Died. George Lambton, 73, 3d Earl of Durham, famed English turfman, landlord & coal tycoon; after a long illness; in London. He owned race horses for 50 years, never placed a bet, won only one English classic. The late Lord Randolph Churchill once described him as "prominent among the gilded youth who throng the corridor of the Gaiety Theatre, but who have studied politics about as much as Barnum's white elephant and upon whose ingenious mind even the idea of rendering service to the state has not yet commenced to dawn...