Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brother and principal heir of the late Lord Northcliffe who had no children...
...famous old comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, their faces were not seen to twitch with pleasure, excitement, or surprise. Little did it matter to them that Producer George Grouse Tyler was offering this amiable revival at popular prices; that D. Lyn Harding, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Fay Bainter, Glenn Hunter, Pauline Lord and O. P. Heggie were listed in the cast. The sly choirs of critics were heard chirping in shrill and resonant annoyance; some of the stars, they justly cried, were out of orbit; the play itself was not quite so twinkling as they had been led to suppose. It retained...
...MIRROR FOR WITCHES - Esther Forbes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs...
...Lord '28 collected three of the four hits that his team was able to gather from the offerings of McAfee. Harvard's lone tally came in the second, on singles by Lord and F. E. Nugent '30 and a sacrifice by John Prior...
...McAfee, p. 3 1 2 0 3 0 Totals 28 3 5 27 12 2 HARVARD a.b. r. h. p.o. a. e. Burns, c.f. 4 0 0 3 0 0 Chase, 2b. 3 0 0 3 1 1 Donaghy, s.s. 4 0 0 1 4 1 Lord, c. 4 1 3 3 1 0 Prior, lb. 2 0 0 9 0 0 Hardie, l.f. 4 0 0 3 0 0 Nugent, 3b. 4 0 1 0 0 1 Durkee, r.f. 2 0 0 1 0 0 Whitmore, p. 3 0 0 1 3 0 Totals...