Word: lordships
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...Lordship...
...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...
...Lordship, apologies for an unintentional demotion...
...haired and swankly mustached Robert Henry Ethelbert King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough, 40, heir to the Earl of Kingston, War veteran and a onetime subaltern in the Royal Scots Greys, was on terms of the greatest intimacy with a Miss Adele Royle, 34, dressmakers' mannequin. Early this spring His Lordship's attention began to wander, and Miss Royle promptly sued for breach of promise. The case was instantly quashed in the courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle's apartment it had been His Lordship...
...London, a Chancery Justice heard the Negus' counsel stoutly assert: "I hope to satisfy your Lordship that the plaintiff is still the Emperor of Ethiopia. . . . He is so recognized by the British Government." But the court postponed decision on the case in which British Cable & Wireless Ltd. denies it owes the Emperor $50,000 for the maintenance in Ethiopia of a radio station for duplex radiotelegraphic service between Britain, Ethiopia, instead claims that the money now reverts to the King of Italy...