Word: lordly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only trouble with the North Sea experiment was that the guinea pigs flatly refuted the experimenters' report. The only unquestioned result was a bewildering altercation between Herr Goring's office and Great Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, effervescent Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill...
Another Laborite, George Griffith, called out: "Sack the lot!" Amidst more laughter Sir Edward said that Lord Macmillan, Minister of Information, recognized that "the situation requires investigation." Interrupting him, Socialist J. J. Davison shouted: "It requires evacuation!" The House cheered...
...alone in ridiculing Lord Macmillan's Ministry was the House of Commons. In the Minister's own House of Lords next day Opposition Whip Lord Strabolgi poked gentle fun at him: "Lord Macmillan's position is that he is lying on his back with three Defense Ministers sitting on his chest." (Laughter.) There was need, said Lord Strabolgi, for a man with "journalistic flair" to make the Ministry a powerful department as it was in World War I under Britain's late, great news baron, Lord Northcliffe...
Sued for Divorce. Lionel Hallam Lord Tennyson, 49, cricketing grandson of Poet Alfred Tennyson and author of From Verse to Worse; by Lady Tennyson, 35; in Redwood City, Calif. Grounds: "grievous mental suffering...
Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, Lord Somers, Deputy Chief Scout of Britain's Boy Scouts, issued a war order to all scouts to wear their uniforms, himself appeared in the House of Lords in Scout shorts. Commented the London Evening Standard: "His costume aroused little comment. Ever since Lord De la Warr entered the House during the last war in the bell-bottomed trousers of an able-bodied seaman, their lordships have learnt to take many strange uniforms in their stride...