Word: lordly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them sharply, asked who they were, what they wanted. They explained: they represented a national association opposed to blue laws. Leading them was Spencer M. de Golier, thrice Mayor of Bradford, Pa., Vice President of N. A. O. B. L. They had read about how a delegation of the Lord's Day Alliance had called last month upon President Hoover to urge him to support blue law legislation for Washington (TIME, July 22). Now in protest came they of the N. A. O. B. L. to pray the President to refuse such support...
...grand suite, occupied by its most prosperous and ugly customer. He and several of his concubines had moved in some time ago, while other guests pointed covertly, whispered, "It's Chang Tsung-chang and his harem.'' As every Chinaman knows, Ugly Customer Chang is the rapacious former Chinese War Lord of Shantung. He taxed and stole $10,000,000 cash out of that luckless province before the Chinese Nationalists drove him out (TIME, Sept. 24). Insatiable, he set sail from Japanese waters last spring with a privateering expedition, recaptured part of Shantung, terrorized banks and merchants into yielding him more...
...once the onetime War Lord appeared smiling, affable, passed around his famous fat cigars. The accident was regrettable, he said, but easily explained. He had been "handling" a new pistol?presumably much as a Tilden swishes a new racket?to get its hang and feel. He had not noticed Prince Hsien Kai or anyone else in the garden. Somehow or other, while he "handled" the pistol, it had gone...
Churchill: I demand to know on what the Foreign Secretary based his statement that Mr. Churchill had had an "interview" with Lord Lloyd...
Henderson (sweetly, provoking roars of laughter on all sides of the House): Lord Lloyd told me he had seen Mr. Churchill...