Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Grove Hill near Hellingly, Sussex, brawny workmen employed by Anglo-American Oil Co. began to drill with up-to-the-minute apparatus capable of boring more than a mile. Present with intense official interest was Lord Apsley, representing the Minister for Coordination of Defense. Some time in August, Britain will get another check on her home oil potential...
...Square giving the effect of a symphony played with sledge-hammers upon an old-fashioned stove. The small chatter of the waitresses on their way to the House dining-rooms sounds like the uproar of an army. The neighbor's morning shower through the firedoor a veritable Niagara. Lord, how wise was the philosopher who said it is not the physical volume of sound that matters, but the mood the noise finds the hearer...
...appoint you Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury." These were the traditional words, spoken by King George, that greeted Mr. Chamberlain a few minutes later. Mr. Chamberlain knelt, kissed His Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...
...There are three main divisions of the law: common or garden law, which seems to be made rather by the sun and shade than by the reasoning of man; equity, which the learned John Selden said depended upon the length of the Lord Chancellor's foot; and international law, which is a device made of sand, painted to look like iron...
Since 1931 the U. S. company has been administered as part of the Lipton estate by Lord Inverforth and other Lipton trustees. Its sale last February brought it not only into closer union with the English company but into the corporate constellation of Unilever, Ltd., huge European margarine and soap combine (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Many a U. S. investor was surprised to learn last week that Lipton, Ltd. is among the myriad companies which Unilever dominates...