Word: lordships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abounding in its waters, eely Ely is a market town of only 8,000-odd inhabitants. Its fairs, held on the feast of Saxon St. Etheldreda (or St. Audrey, whence the word tawdry), are still nominally run by the Bishop of Ely. There is not much else for His Lordship to do in Ely; nearby Cambridge has more religious life, and there the Ely diocesan conferences are held. Yet, because he is a member of the Established Church of England, drawing ?4,000 a year ($16,000) from the Government, the Bishop of Ely must live in his ancient...
...penalties we pay for Establishment. ... If I were allowed to move into a smaller house I should be better off... despite the fact that I should be giving up ?1,000 a year. ... I fear I have a very long furrow to drive." Well did His Lordship of Ely realize that there was little hope that his wish would be granted...
...Onetime Senior Lord of Appeal Lord Dunedin celebrated his goth birthday with cocktails in his Sloane Street home. Guests viewed the film His Lordship took in the Black Forest (Germany) last summer...
...during the last fortnight of my mission to Berlin that it proved impossible at the time to give any consecutive account of them. If I have the honor to do so now ... it is with the hope that such an account may be both of immediate interest to your Lordship and serve a purpose from the point of view of historical accuracy...
...tragedy of any dictator is that as he goes on, his entourage steadily and inexorably deteriorates. For lack of freedom of utterance he loses the services of the best men. ... In my report on the events of 1938 I drew your Lordship's special attention to the far and unfortunate results of the Blomberg marriage.* I am more than ever convinced of the major disaster which that-in itself-minor incident involved, owing to the consequent elimination from Herr Hitler's entourage of the more moderate and independent of his advisers. . . . After February of last year Herr Hitler...