Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Viscount Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, had a sad announcement to make before the House of Lords. Five of His Majesty's oldest and most revered men-o'-war, once the symbols of Britain's might, had been ticketed for the scrap yards. Said Hall: "The First Sea Lord and I feel like two padres conducting the funeral service of a number of old friends...
...grand sachem, lord paramount and international president of the American Federation of Musicians, Caesar Petrillo has an imperial disdain for convention, and, when confronted by bacteria, he will stop at nothing. He roars like a wounded lion if a photographer lays a camera down near him; he believes microbes use cam eras as invasion barges to leap...
...transferred his tears and loyalties to him. In 1923, Warlord Tsao Kun captured China's government and made Feng a full marshal. Once, when Feng visited his boss, he was met by Tsao's private car. Cried Feng: "Heaven above, how dare I, little rascal, use my lord teacher...
Next year, his lord teacher Tsao was fighting the notorious Japanese-backed ex-bandit and warlord, Chang Tso-lin; Feng calmly attacked the rear of Tsao's armies, imprisoned Tsao, and, for a while, became China's "strong man." He removed the better part of the Imperial City's ancient treasures after putting out the ly-year-old Boy Emperor Pu Yi. He allied himself with Chang. He also married the secretary of the Peking Y.W.C.A. (his first wife, a peasant, had just died...
Said Benjamin Franklin: "The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other ... is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of Human Understanding.... We have been assured, Sir, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests ; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall...