Word: lording
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...After all somebody must make an indiscreet speech now and again. Lord Palmerston made them from time to time and he was one of the finest of Britons. The indiscreet speech of today may be the policy of tomorrow...
...Lord Melchett, onetime Sir Alfred Mond, paid $200,000 for a servant who can do no work. But the servant is pleasant to look at-for it is a painting by Rembrandt of his own servant, Hendrickje Stoffels. Sir Joseph Duveen, the seller, said that he was glad an Englishman got the painting, though an American would have paid him a higher price...
...HIGH ROAD-The old one about the actress and the English Lord-with new jokes and a bitter ending (TIME, Sept...
...Zeppelin, nyth rigid airship of famed Zeppelin progeny. Last week, out of her hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, she emerged for her maiden flight, a short one. Her pilot was her designer-Dr. Hugo Eckener. She carried a crew of 30 and Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. Navy, lord of the Los Angeles...
...Hartley, 40, poverty-stricken loom sweeper, won a $100,000 newspaper prize offered by Publisher Lord Rothermere, guessing the scores of 24 football matches played last week in London...