Word: boredly
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...property, who bore in mind' last week the infinite capacity of Mr. Lloyd George for chicanery, the Empire seemed to pause on the brink of quite appalling possibilities. In 1924 the Liberal Party held a similar balance of power between Conservatives and Laborites, but in those days, the helm of Liberalism was steadied by the firm hand and moral weight of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, now dead (TIME., Feb. 27, 1928). Today there is no force within the Liberal Party able to keep Little David from staging his own particular brand of rip-roaring Taffy Welshman...
...March 4, 1921, Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes. N.J.. bore a son, which like many others born that day, was christened Warren Harding. On March 4, 1929, the same Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes, N.J., bore her second son. This infant, like others born that day, was named Herbert Hoover...
...Corporal Puddifoot of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade displayed a gleaming pair of gold cuff links last week, a present from Queen Mary. For Corporal Puddifoot was one of the four stretcher-bearers who bore the King-Emperor from Buckingham Palace to the motor ambulance which carried him to Bognor. Last week the King's Equerry, Col. Arthur Erskine, in behalf of the Queen, handed each of the four a pair of massive gold links, each large enough to bear the inscription: "A Memento of Her Majesty's Appreciation of Your Services...
Cameramen beset Charles Francis Adams, new Secretary of the Navy, in his office. They posed him in half a dozen positions, ordered him this way and that. In silence he bore their directions. Finally one cameraman called out, "Please write something on a piece of paper, Mr. Secretary." He wrote. The cameras clicked. On the paper were the words: "This is hell. C.F. Adams...
...again and went to Biarritz to find him. But he had married without telling her, grown heavy, gone into business and was fathering a family. She fled to Buenos Aires and on board ship she married de Laurac who, she discovered later, preferred to her a slovenish bourgeoise who bore him children...