Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advancing upon Tientsin with another section of his enormous personal army, which probably totals 100,000 men. In Tientsin were large remnants of the armies of Chang Tso-lin which recently evacuated Peking. These troops, said to number 30,000 and excellently equipped, were commanded by the wounded War Lord's son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang...
...along the last mile of the course and the spectators sit on top of them drinking champagne. This year as usual they bought luck-charms from gypsy peddlers, cheered the Prince of Wales, waved their hats at the King, and shouted as the horses went round to the start. Lord Derby's Fairway was favorite...
...Compton had thought so to win her, his calculations played him false. For Octavia's intense vitality was quickly engrossed in pursuit of hounds on the scent. Debonair Lord Tilbury loaded her with flowers, declared his love. And a highly respected Master of Hounds, dull, substantial, shy, delegated his mother to propose marriage. Octavia would make a fitting mistress to a world of vigorous horsemen...
...clock: Mrs. Oakes Ames, Mrs. Henry D. Atwater, Mrs. James Burns, Mrs. George L. Canfield, Mrs. Philip P. Chase, Mrs. William L. Dearborn, Mrs. John O. Jones, Mrs. John A. Lord, Mrs. Joseph Morrill, Mrs. Carl H. Plorzheimer...
...where it will spend the night before the Yale series opener tomorrow away from the Yale Commencement crowds. HARVARD a.b. r. h. p.o. a. e. Burns, c.f. 5 1 2 2 2 0 Chase, 2b. 5 0 3 4 7 2 Donaghy, 31. 5 0 2 1 3 0 Lord, c. 4 0 1 3 1 0 Cutts, p. 3 0 0 1 3 1 Prior, 1b. 4 0 1 12 1 0 Whitney, r.f., l.f. 3 2 1 1 0 0 Hardie, l.f. 2 0 0 0 0 0 Jones, r.f. 1 0 0 1 0 0 Sullivan...