Word: birkenhead
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Against a charge that he had stolen another man's ideas, made a book of them and sold it, the brilliant, hard-drinking Earl of Birkenhead defended himself last week with all the power and crushing erudition of a former Lord High Chancellor, of Britain...
Example: Both Scientist Haldane and Lord Birkenhead feel that eventually the farmer will become extinct, driven off his land by great synthetic food factories which will make things to eat cheaper than they can be grown...
...Utilities Power & Light Corp., potent Midwest utility holding company. It was Utilities Power & Light which two years ago invaded the British Utility field by securing control of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., which supplies power to London, Birmingham and many another English city and of which the Earl of Birkenhead is chairman. In addition to his duties as utility organizer and promoter, Mr. Clarke has cultivated an interest in Shakespeare to the extent of financing the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society headed by Fritz Leiber and at present playing in Manhattan. The theatres equipment company has been interested chiefly...
...Among those present-The Dukes & Duchesses of Westminster and Marlborough, the Marquis Merry del Val, Lord Beatty. Lord & Lady Birkenhead, Mr. & Mrs. Winston Churchill...
...That great jurist the Earl of Birkenhead stretched truth very slightly by remarking: "If the Prime Minister advises the King to cut off his own head His Majesty is expected to assent...