Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replied the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper: "Let us remember that late in the World War we did everything in our power to starve the women and children in Germany! . . . Those [Leftist food] ships, every one of them, are performing invaluable services to the Spanish [Leftist] Government. . . . Can they really expect that the British Navy will see them safe into harbor...
...Common humanity, indeed!" replied the First Lord. "In case you fired on Spanish ships you would be entering the war and risking the lives of British sailors for a cause which no man in this country outside of the [Laborite] Opposition thinks is worth fighting...
...Fall River Line, on the old Fall River Line, I fell for Susie's line of talk, and Susie fell for mine; Then we fell in with a parson, and he tied us tight as twine, But I wish, oh Lord! I fell overboard, On the old Fall River Line. One day last week the 426-ft. Priscilla, one of the matriarchs of the Fall River Line (water wheels and feathering buckets, double-inclined compound engine, 95-inch cylinders and eleven-foot stroke) moved with stateliness up New York's East River, as if ignoring the ignominious fact...
Cissy Patterson spends most of her party hours at "Dower House," her estate in Maryland, once owned by Lord Baltimore. She is driven to work every morning at eleven in one of her 16-cylinder Cadillacs. Sometimes she appears in riding-habit, accompanied by her French poodles, who have the run of the office and are dutifully patted by reporters. She lunches, though rarely at this season, at her town house. No. 15 DuPont Circle, formerly Daisy Harriman's, where the Calvin Coolidges stayed after their White House fire. Glowing, brocaded pajamas are her favorite party garb. Her voice...
...Mary the Virgin's Church in Oxford last Sunday, His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury did something no Primate of England had ever done before, something that the Archbishop had frostily disapproved when upon previous occasions it had been done, or proposed, by lesser Anglican churchmen. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang celebrated Communion at St. Mary's altar for anyone-Orthodox Russian, Swedish Lutheran, U. S. Baptist or African Methodist-who cared to partake. And many a non-Anglican from all parts of the world did partake, for this friendly gesture, coming from one ordinarily so strict...