Word: overlording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Prince Rudda di Trabia, seven times a prince, thrice a duke, four times a marquis, overlord of seven Italian towns, head of reputedly the oldest family in Sicily...
...carefully distinguished from his nominal overlord, the great Chang Tso-lin, "Chang of Manchuria...
...both projects were designed with a careful eye to the convenient and the aesthetic. Studying Freshmen are consoled by handsome woodwork, pots of geranium, and a spacious alcove with a fireplace. The business men's professional fatigue is more than soothed by the arts of the former culinary overlord at the American House. And these things are within the gates of the respective consumers...
...plaintiff, Miss Louise Owen, a dark-eyed graceful woman, for 20 years Lord Northcliffe's secretary, made sensational charges against his brother, Lord Rothermere, who has succeeded him as the great overlord of the British press. Miss Owen charged that Lord Rothermere, as an executor of the Northcliffe estate, virtually sold to himself control of the Daily Mail Trust, in 1922, at four pounds a share, whereas the shares were allegedly worth seven pounds. She asked, as one of the Northcliffe heirs, that this sale be now set aside, a step which would unbalance the whole newspaper structure of England...
...Canton. Newspapers all over Ohio succeeded in confusing Justice in its course by their frantic efforts to beat one another to the mystery's solution. Evidence pointed to the hiring of underworld thugs, by "higher-ups" in Canton to commit the murder. One Louis Mazer, Canton bootlegger and an overlord of the Canton "jungle" was arrested. Also one Ben Rudner, hardware dealer of nearby Massillon, Ohio. But the key man of the mystery was missing, Patrick Eugene McDermott, ex-convict, member of a family of mine-laborers in Nanty Glo, Pa. He was believed to have been in the shooting...