Word: lording
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Among them: Philosopher Bertrand Russell; London Publisher Lord Lay ton; the Very Reverend W. .R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's; the Right Reverend Edward Ellis, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham...
There was never much doubt about what the Lord intended for Henry Sloane Coffin. As a youngster in New York City, he used a shawl-draped set of kitchen steps for a pulpit from which to deliver a high-pitched sermon to his lawyer-father and family. From such beginnings came the clear, hard-hitting style of preaching that eventually helped to multiply attendance at his fashionable Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1926. Under his liberal leadership (1926-45), Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary moved up to top rank among U.S. divinity schools. When the Presbyterian Board...
...British Naval Surgeon James Lind (1716-94) wondered enviously why sauerkraut-eating Dutch sailors got less scurvy than his tars on long voyages. He guessed right, recommended citrus fruits to supply what science years later called vitamin C. In 1795, Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered lemons or limes included in the daily diet on British ships. Soon British sailors and then the whole British people became known as "limeys." "Limey" bears no etymological relation to "Blimey," or to Limehouse, a London dock district named for an old lime kiln, or oast...
...past five years a dozen Seattle businessmen, most of whom knew nothing about newspapering, had owned the Star. Last week they sold out (for a profitable $400,000) to a flashily rising press lord the Pacific Northwest was suddenly hearing about. In less than a month Sheldon F. (for Fred) Sackett, 44, had bought the Vancouver (Wash.) Sun, acquired a weekly (he rechristened it the Sun, too) across the Columbia River at Portland, Ore., and snatched, for a small down payment, a million-dollar Portland printing plant. He had served notice on Portland's venerable Oregonian and the Oregon...
Died. Sir James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 85, fourth Marquess of Salisbury; in London. Son of Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, he was twice Lord Privy Seal, was noted for his two clashes with David Lloyd George (he recommended the rejection of his budget in 1909, and in 1922 headed a Conservative movement which overthrew Lloyd George's Government...