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Word: lordships (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Principal executives like General Manager Ewart John Robertson run back and forth all day when "The Old Man" is in London. On the rare occasions when his Lordship goes to the Express, Manager Robertson (who met him as a bellboy carrying his bags into a Canadian hotel) has been known to see that all cigaret butts were removed from his path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...hands-across-the-sea is British Press Titan Lord Beaverbrook (born plain William Maxwell Aitken). Last week, when U. S. Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett arrived in London, Lord Beaverbrook's friendly hand had a distinctly ham quality about it. Speaking through his Daily Express and Evening Standard his lordship found Mr. Gannett eminently qualified to be President, handed him the nomination. "In two years, Gannett may be the President of the U. S.," warned the Standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: British Boomlet | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Lordship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...March 28 issue in referring to Mr. Justice Branson [the London judge who decided against Bette Davis in her contract difficulties with Warner Brothers] as "His Honor." English usage confers this title on a County Court Judge, the correct reference to a Supreme Court Justice being "His Lordship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Lordship, apologies for an unintentional demotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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