Word: overlording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, a little man tugged delightedly at his large ears-a sign that he was greatly pleased, puzzled or vexed. He was the great Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, the friend of Japan, the implacable foe of Soviet Russia, overlord by right of might throughout all Manchuria. He was pleased because his son, General Chang Hsueh-liang, had just entered Peking at the head of a victorious army...
There was at the dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back...
...spent looking up and correcting faulty addresses. In Alabama, visiting Clemson College, Josephus Daniels, onetime (1913-21) overlord of the Navy, made comparisons...
...Honors" courses will be extended in due time; the faculty will be enlarged and more money will be appropriated. But in the meantime, it is not mitigating this particular cause of undergraduate unrest for the blatant iconoclast to fire at our overlord, charging that he will not suffer his foot to be moved...
This was a fine story for the newspapers because Dr. Guthrie had clashed before with his spiritual overlord, Bishop Manning, over the subject of eurytlunic dancing in St. Mark's (TIME, Dec. 31 et seq.). The Indian dance seemed a direct defy to the Bishop. All Manhattan journals printed the tale...