Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personification of Empire do-or-die, and more recently as the British statesman most violently opposed to appeasing "the Huns." Accordingly he is one of the Führer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone out of his way to attack the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty. He has charged that he was a leader of the "British war party." Once, in a speech shortly after Munich, the Führer said that should Mr. Churchill (or Anthony Eden) replace Mr. Chamberlain, Germany would undoubtedly be faced with...
...First to talk tough was Winston Churchill, Wartime First Lord of the Admiralty. He addressed to Führer Hitler a warning to "pause, consider well before you take a plunge into the terrible unknown. . . . The British nation and surely also the British Empire have reached the limit of their patience...
...surgeon's saw used to amputate Lord Nelson's arm at Cape St. Vincent...
...Lord Byron's hollow snake's-head ring, for carrying poison...
...Patterson had talked to Lord Northcliffe, whose London Daily Mirror, a half-size picture paper, was selling nearly 1,000,000 copies daily. Northcliffe suggested that he try out the tabloid idea in the U. S. Captain Patterson met Colonel McCormick somewhere behind the lines; they dined with some other officers, then stepped outside and seated themselves on the dung heap...