Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crabs is a word of antiquity. In 1761 Lord Carlisle is quoted: "If you . . . will play, the best thing I can wish you is, that you may win and never throw crabs." In 1801, when young Marigny was sowing his wild oats in London Town, The Sporting Magazine printed: "Dreamt that I had thrown crabs all night and couldn't nick a seven...
...story of the Spanish refugees' misfortunes began to reach the world. A horrified Parliamentary commission of French Leftists investigating conditions condemned the refugees' treatment, accused the guards of brutality. As a result of criticism, some efforts at improvement have recently been made. In the British House of Lords, Lord Faringdon asked that Britain cooperate with the French at once to end needless suffering. According to Lord Faringdon the refugee death rate was high...
...years the practice of searing wounds with boiling oil, covering them with such things as bacon, earthworms, rabbit fur, oil of lilies and a boiled concoction of young whelps "just pupp'd"-denounced him as a heretic. Theodoric, says Dr. Graham, was "as great an original thinker as Lord Lister," inventor of antiseptic technique...
...scale undoubtedly gives the play piquancy; but it proves fatal so far as evoking the unique spirit of Jesus is concerned. Though not at all irreverent, Family Portrait has none of the feeling that went into painting The Last Supper; rather the cleverness that goes into engraving the Lord's Prayer on the head...
...that the Brills are drawn from his cousins the Edward Everett Hale ("The Man Without a Country") family. Author Marquand is descended from old New England ancestry which included Margaret Fuller, minor Transcendentalists, and a privateer in the Revolution who bagged so many prizes he prayed at last: "Lord, stay thine hand, thy servant hath enough...