Word: lordship
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...publish, and whose Empress has lately been nobbled (kidnapped) and is by way of being nobbled again. Which is why Lord Tilbury is seized by his beefy scruff and thrust into a dark and dirty shed. And why young Monty Bodkin, his discharged subeditor, regains employment with His Lordship. And why, since the ms. of the racy reminiscences is the other jewel of the plot, the Empress ultimately makes a meal of said ms. and, one complication having thus consumed another, the agreeable young people involved (the other young man is Ronnie Fish; the girls, "good old" Gertrude Butterwick...
...politico. Everyone, however, knew he could fight. In 1924 he won the Scotch amateur middleweight title. He had gone to Glasgow with his friend, classmate and mentor, Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (Fighting for Fun), to enter the championship bout. The reigning champion, a coal miner, gave His Lordship a terrible drubbing, broke one of his teeth half in two, left another hanging by a thread...
...gist of His Lordship's report was that "It would be dangerous to leave the Monarchy as the only hereditary element in the Constitution...
Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and possessed of an immense curly grey beard, His Lordship has the high Salisbury forehead for which his father was famed. Long rector of Hatfield. Herts, seat of the Cecils, he became rural dean of Hertford in 1904, honorary chaplain to King Edward VII in 1909. Asquith appointed him in 1916 Bishop of Exeter, a vast diocese about which the noble Bishop motors and occasionally bicycles, his long square coattails flapping about his gaitered legs. An old Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church...
...Manhattan last week His Lordship hailed the U. S. as the leader of the Anglo-Saxon race which had created the "greatest of the Western civilizations.'' Said he: "America will face incredible prosperity once the world has accepted the great truths that we must live and govern our nations, not for ourselves, but for others." His Lordship also took part in the 17th annual Good Will Congress of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches. Present were Germany's onetime Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Editor Michael Williams of The Commonweal, Editor...