Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That pleasant young man Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, had something to do last week. As 16th Duke of Norfolk and 27th Earl of Arundel, His Grace is the Premier Duke & Earl of the entire peerage. He is the British aristocrat. Beside the Ducal House of Norfolk, the Royal House of Windsor is an upstart. Last week His Grace the Duke of Norfolk was informed that a cinema theatre at Stirling, Scotland was flying not the Union Jack but the ancient flag of Scotland, boldly flaunting the Lion Rampant...
...over the short, tricky Salem Country Club course is 72. In the morning Virginia Van Wie shot a 73, putting Mrs. Vare's perfectly respectable 83 eight down. In the afternoon at the 22nd Miss Van Wie sank an eagle 3. At the 27th Mrs. Vare was still nine down. At the 28th, when Mrs. Vare's chip stopped ten feet short and she missed the putt, she conceded Miss Van Wie two putts from four-feet for hole, match & title, 10 & 8, the worst trouncing in a women's national final since the 1928 Vare-Van Wie match which...
...increased his lead to 2 up in the first two holes of the afternoon, then went ragged. On the 24th Somerville chipped poorly, took two futile putts, finally conceded a 7 to Goodman's cool if not brilliant 5, making it all even. Taking the 25th and 27th (with a birdie 2 to Somerville's 4) Goodman made it 2 up and seemed ready to carry the title back to Omaha...
...shoulder with Kyronen, who liked the cool weather, holding on behind them. Then, in the last mile. De Bruyn began to work his well-muscled legs faster in their choppy stride. He was 200 yd. ahead at the finish, with Hennigan second, Kyronen third, De Mar 18th, McLeod 27th. Far behind McLeod straggled a sad marathoner named Charles E. Bradford of Lowell, Mass. He was seized by a policeman as he finished the race, hustled to court where his wife was suing him for maintenance...
...work at the Foreign Office and diligently tutored by its bureaucrats, H. R. H. developed symptoms so alarming that his withdrawal from the Foreign Office became imperative." It must always be borne in mind," his comptroller, Major Ulick Alexander, warned the nation on Prince George's 27th birthday, "that his digestion is weak and, what perhaps is not generally known, that he suffers from insomnia" (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929) Since 1929 Prince George and Edward of Wales, chums in revelry, have sailed, golfed and danced their way around South America without seasickness, quaffed many a beaker without indigestion...