Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his white beard waggling in emphasis, Exeter's Gascoyne-Cecil graphically described his latest visit to the U. S., urging British Laborites to go and see for themselves how sordid, graft-ridden and enslaved by party machines he found U. S. Democracy. This brought His Lordship to his point, namely, that the House of Lords ought not to pass the India Bill (TIME, June 17) on second reading last week because it may give Indians a modicum of Democracy. "How are you going to void some great political machine's controlling the great masses of India?" cried...
...Beware," cried His Lordship, "that you do not convict her of this crime [murder] because she is an adulteress-an adulteress of, you may think, the most unpleasant type...
...with a distinguished War record. He is now director of three great London papers (Evening Standard, Daily Express, Sunday Express) and a part-time gossip columnist who has learned to overcome the British public's innate awe of a title by writing with elaborate earthiness. Fortnight ago His Lordship turned his attention to the menace of aerial bombardment during the next...
...lipstick stains on glasses. He blinded the thieves with an old-fashioned puff of snuff. And by turning out the lights he tricked them into his cellar when they appeared at his manse in search of the loot he took from them. With the culprits incarcerated below stairs, His Lordship has time to disentangle a pair of lovers from the plot, send them off toward the altar before the curtain falls on this amusing dramatic puffball...
...Bishop then formally condemned "our economic system," laid before the Assembly a report on economic and social conditions with special reference to the Dole. "I had meetings with the leading economists of the City and you never saw such men for disagreeing!" declared His Lordship with vehemence. "I learned more from the unemployed themselves than from all the economists in the world...