Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birkett: "I assume what Your Lordship has in mind...
...Lordship of Chichester had first to decide whether the Buntings were responsible for their suicide, which in turn would decide their right to Christian burial. Next he had to deal with the deplorable scandal of an Anglican curate's son breaking the Fifth Commandment, Honor thy father and thy mother. Last week he publicly adjured James Bunting to repent of his sins, informed him that until further notice he may not partake of Holy Communion in any church in the diocese of Chichester...
...Hailsham, onetime War Minister, as to whether the United Kingdom has sufficient food stores to hold out in case an enemy cut off Great Britain's supplies. "We calculate our three months' supply ought to be enough for us in any temporary squeeze,'' replied His Lordship, "but no method of food storage is going to save us as long as we do not keep our control...
...copy of TIME, Sept. 10, 1934 was handed up in King's Bench division last week for the inspection of Hon. Mr. Justice Swift. After scrutinizing it with care, His Lordship ventured, "It is apparently an American publication." Subject of the trial was a libel suit against Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express by intuitive Adolf Hitler's magnetic friend Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. The gigantic Nazi Doktor is given to moments of extreme nervous excitement which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle...
...down bobbed Ilchester's small Adam's apple last week within the high, oldfashioned collar he affects. "Most lamentable!" cried he. "The land is now producing fine crops." Chiming in with His Lordship, the Dorset County Council appealed to His Majesty's Government to assemble their new air Might somewhere else. "Dorset is becoming an armed camp!" sputtered Dorset County Councilor A. H. Edwards. "We will soon be taking visitors to see not the swans of Abbotsbury but the new bombing station, then to Holton Heath to see where cordite is being made and on to Bovington...