Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about $3,700. Anyone who gets $3,700 per year can easily remember the figure $3,700,000,000.00 because that is just one million times his salary. To remember that figure became last week a patriotic duty, because that is the figure which Brig. Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord, funny-story-telling Director of the Budget, put down as the cost of U. S. (federal) government for the fiscal year July 1, 1929-June 30, 1930. All the columns and columns of additions and subtractions which totalled 3,700 million were placed by General Lord before President Coolidge at Brule...
...Learned with ejaculations of surprise that rich, stern-hearted Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver has at length decided to aid in a peculiar manner the penniless widow and son of one Captain Walter Hinchliffe, who was lost while attempting to fly the Atlantic with Lord Inchcape's daughter, the Hon. Elsie Mackay. Unwilling to aid Widow Hinchliffe directly, Viscount Inchcape placed ?10,000 ($48,700) at the disposal and "absolute discretion" of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, last week, with the request he administer it in such manner as to alleviate "any complaint by other sufferers from the disaster...
...Jointly harkened to a Speech from the Throne, proroguing Parliament to Nov. 6. The Speech was sonorously read by Baron Hogg of Hailsham, rotund Lord High Chancellor, because His Majesty, a keen yachtsman, was en route to Cowes for the famed annual Regatta...
...today that, last week, Socialist Prime Minister Herman Müller announced, for the first time, suspension of the annual army maneuvers scheduled to take place next fall. Simultaneously a letter sped from Wilhelm II to the Kaiser Wilhelm Association at Berlin, stating that the onetime All Highest War Lord still envisions "a day when the problem may arise of liberating the German Fatherland by reestablishing it under its Kaiser and hereditary Prince...
...finished a scant yard behind Nurmi. One-Hundred-Metre Dash. Won by Percy Williams of Canada, 10½ sec. Frank Wykoff, California schoolboy favorite, finished fourth. Sixteen-Pound Hammer Throw. Won by Patrick O'Callaghan of Ireland, 168 ft.,718½ in. Four-Hundred-Metre Hurdles. Won by Lord David Burghley of Great Britain...