Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard Burden Haldane, first Viscount of Cloan, had died in 1913, a grateful Britain would have remembered him as a capable War Minister intent on army reorganization, as Lord High Chancellor and a Parliamentarian for 26 years...
Last week, in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, Lord Haldane died. A grateful Britain, recovered from Wartime hysteria, will Remember him as an elder statesman, an important factor in the Allied victory and as one of the most distinguished philosophers of his time...
...Pancake had wished to be extraordinarily cunning, excessively sly, he might have written to the American Code Co., 206 Broadway, Manhattan, commissioning Master Codist Frederick Ainsworth Hall to prepare a private code for Pancake messages. Codist Hall, secretary to Lord Roberts during the Boer War, onetime (1919-21) expert for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., would have devised a code similar in size to the Commercial Cable Code, charge about $1,000 for 1,000 copies...
Died. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 90, famed British statesman and historian (Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, The American Revolution), onetime member of the Gladstone Cabinet, nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay; after a critical illness, in Northumberland, England...
...Miss Ramsay's hands a prosaic Corn Law becomes a matter of fiery drama, and the most eventful period of British parliamentary history becomes the most exciting; Her lucid analysis of the political situation sets the stage, her vivid incidental sketches of "Dis," Lord Pam, Victoria, people it. Impartial, she creates Peel with all his faults of temper, tactlessness and lack of humor, but sets him centre stage in all his grandeur as England's greatest Premier...