Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...menaced by something that is beyond our control, that has been imposed upon us by authorities that perhaps have not investigated as carefully as should have been investigated the elements that make up not only this lumber industry, but all industry throughout the whole United States. We ask, O Lord, therefore, that Thou wilt be sympathetic with us as we study our problems, and as we come to Thee for guidance, wilt Thou give it to us? In the name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord, we ask it. Amen...
...Secrets Act. What happened to Mr. Hore-Belisha was nothing. His Government immediately got the second vote of confidence in two days (355-to-130), and the War Secretary prepared to send a "simple memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future. Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, whose duties are to be those of a minister for civilian defense, blamed the whole thing on "enormous" British inertia, called upon all parties to "cooperate to prove that Democracy can function to protect itself as efficiently as a Dictatorship." Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, while admitting "many...
...quality but for the fact that practically everyone at Dartmouth-the dean, the football team, the coach, the college publicity office-behaved toward Gates with the utmost sympathy. In his room, a few nights before the Yale game, had appeared a white-clad figure who said: "I am the Lord, and I command you to play football with Dartmouth...
Died. James Lord Pratt, 76, proprietor of Essex, Conn.'s famed, 260-year-old Pratt's Village Smithy (wrought-iron work), reputed the oldest business in the U. S. run continuously by one family; of a heart attack; in Essex...
Both descendants of famed Man o' War,† War Admiral (his son) had been brought up like Little Lord Fauntleroy, while Seabiscuit (his grandson) had been treated like a fairy-book stepchild-sent out as a breadwinner in 35 overnight races and minor stakes when he was only two years old. As a three-year-old he was entered in a claiming race for $6,000, but no one wanted the homely little son of Hard Tack...