Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sovereign Lord the King!" cried an equally black police officer, promptly reading the Riot Act to the cane-field workers, "chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George [I] for preventing tumultuous and riotous assembles. God save the King...
Contrasting conditions with those related by two Loyalist deserters who recently landed in Boston, Bangs felt that the aid of Germany and Italy on the Rebel side made things pretty nice. "Food! Good Lord what meals: fresh vegetables, plenty of meat, mmmmm!" and he continued to tell of feasts that would cause even the palate of a Lucius Beebe to water. There was one trouble, however, and that they only got little more than a pint of milk a day, but Bangs seemed to feel that the wines, especially the new spring wine from the Barcelona region, more than made...
...elegant British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax whose cadaverous visage for once beamed. This same Halifax few months ago visited and conferred at length with Hitler, afterwards was reported by close friends shocked and grieved when Germany absorbed Austria. Whether or not events in Austria have taught Lord Halifax things he did not know about Germans, the conference at No. 10 Downing Street last week impressed London correspondents as of historic moment. They drew the United Kingdom and the French Republic into what United Press's Webb Miller called "an unwritten military alliance...
...want to join your church?' There is no way to keep them out." Bishop Denny also argued against unity based upon Christ's words, There shall be one fold and one shepherd. Said he: "Certainly the one fold cannot be confined to Methodism. The good Lord had His work done for centuries before He raised up a Methodist organization...
...LORD BERNERS : THE TRIUMPH OF NEPTUNE (London Philharmonic; Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham; Columbia: 4 parts). Trickily instrumented, clever suite originally designed for one of Choreographer Balanchine's concoctions...