Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have long been anxious to pay a visit to Canada. . . . This will enable me to renew my acquaintance with Lord Tweedsmuir. . . ." When Cordell Hull made this announcement last month, newshawks were unwilling to believe that the U. S. Secretary of State would ever make a purely "social visit" to another country. They concluded that he was anxious to discuss with Canada's Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King the future of their reciprocal trade agreement, most important one to be signed by Mr. Hull and now in its second successful year...
Arrived in London, His Majesty was graciously pleased to assent to the text of his Speech from the Throne, drawn up by the Chamberlain Cabinet, and to assent to its being read to the Lords and Commons last week by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham. This usual procedure of opening the last session of a Parliament did not necessitate the presence of Their Majesties, and Viscount Hailsham read with traditional decorum such phrases from the King's Speech as "the Queen...
...health, Reporter Morgan tells how Pius XI has instituted "almost to the point of dogma," the dictum that the Pope must not be ill. When Cardinal Salotti dared to suggest, last year, that the Pope take a rest, "The Pontiff stirred. His face was grave with resentment. . . . 'The Lord has endowed you with many good qualities, Salotti,' decreed the Holy Father in acid and peremptory terms, 'but he denied you a clinical eye.' " Likewise, to a monk who made bold to admonish Pius XI to spare his legs: "Do not be so engrossed about my lameness...
...Brussels was Britain's gruff, burly Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's electrical structure, revered director of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory. Also on hand was one of Rutherford's imaginative young workers, John Douglas Cockroft, who was at that time splitting lithium atoms by hurling protons at them. Cockroft energized his protons with high voltages obtained by transformers, rectifiers and condensers...
Maharani; Tom Ransome, lean, good-looking profligate and world-wanderer; Fern Simon, pretty daughter of the resident missionary; Major Safti, brilliant native surgeon, and Miss MacDaid, his head nurse; Lord Esketh, a self-made peer, and his lady; attendant functionaries, members of the garrison, dried-up and dissatisfied English ladies...