Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...properly elated by his election to the Royal Academy, Augustus John was certainly disgusted by another incident which likewise did much to enlarge his fame. He had painted a picture of famed Lord Leverhulme, soap tycoon. When Lord Leverhulme went to put this portrait in his safe, he found that the canvas was too big to fit. Therefore he ordered the head and neck to be cut off, had the rest labelled "the remainder of the portrait painted by Augustus John," and entrusted it to a servant who, through an idiotic mistake, mailed it to the artist. Said Augustus John...
Lucia Marian Foster-Welch, keen-eyed, hawk-nosed 1237th Lord Mayor of Southampton, England, Admiral in the English Navy (ex-officio title conferred by King Henry IV), arrived on the Leviathan, which flew her Admiral's flag. The Mayor, who is the first woman to hold the position, wore the scarlet mink-trimmed robe of her office, a tricornered black beaver hat, an official 16th-Century gold chain. She was accompanied by her daughter, honorary Mayoress, and was suffering from a swollen nose, the result of a slip on the ship's deck. After a one-week tour...
...discovered that the grave of Richard, first Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Scottish statesman buried last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 20), had been opened during the night. A man was found asleep in a corner of the graveyard. Investigation identified him as the stranger who had momentarily halted Lord Haldane's funeral in London to protest. He explained that he was a spiritualist, said Lord Haldane was not dead, that he had a message for him. The man has been arrested...
...mystery not cleared up by U. S. reviewers of the book up to last week-it is becoming well known among London literatti that "Ephesian" is Mr. Bechofer Roberts, a distinguished part-time secretary to the Earl of Birkenhead; one of the great men whom he has biographed. Since Lord Birkenhead was famed as Mr. "F. E." Smith before his elevation, and since "Ephesian," when pronounced, sounds like " 'F. E.' sian," it was supposed for a time that the noble Earl had himself penned these two books, which seem the product of a brain almost, if not quite...
Elected. L. Ames Brown of Manhattan, to be president of Lord & Thomas & Logan, Inc., advertising agents, Chicago, New York and London...