Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emphasize the nobility of the War Lord's evacuation his son and heir, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, remained behind in Peking to hand the city over to the approaching Nationalist Armies. With him remained a little known but thoroughly potent Chinaman-General Yang Yu-ting, sometimes called the "Ludendorff" or "Brains" of Chang...
...Lord's sumptuous private train rushed toward Manchuria, preceded and followed by grim armored pilot trains, he knew that only an attack by enemy spies or some supreme treachery among his followers could deprive him of life or his great wealth. The unexpected and improbable occurred when two Nationalist spies were able to intercept Chang's train with shrewdly tossed bombs, which smashed three railway cars, but injured the War Lord very slightly, according to despatches...
Third, the effect of this situation was that if War Lord Chang had fought a last engagement at Peking, suffered defeat, and then retired still fighting and chased by the Nationalists toward Manchuria, he would have found his retreat cut off by the Japanese...
Died. Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, Lord High Steward of Retford, Master Forester of Dartmoor, Keeper of St. Briavel's Castle, Earl of Lincoln and seventh Duke of Newcastle, 63; following a long illness; in London...
Eighty thousand pounds-and yet by the merest chance had Martin Barnes, commercial traveler, strolled out of his shabby hotel, and past the strange old house. But Lord Ardrington, on the point of death, was contemptuous alike of charities and his rightful heir, and chose therefore to bestow the ?80,000, in notes, upon the first passerby. Martin, filling that simple requirement, walked out of his commercial existence into a congenial life of valets, and books, and motor cars, but no friends. This might soon have palled had he not become further involved with his benefactor...