Word: caernarvon
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...countrymen called him "L.G.," and there were many who would add "the man who won the last war." Three generations of his neighbors in Caernarvon village had known him as "the little Welsh wizard," still talked of him as a statesman in his prime. But David Lloyd George, 82 years old this month, realized that 54 straight years in Britain's House of Commons was enough, and said so. A grateful government rewarded him with an earldom...
After the war, with the political changes which disrupted his Liberal Party, Lloyd George receded to a position without exact parallel in U.S. political life. Still a great figure, he was nevertheless without tangible power or political organization. His only political role was that of M.P. for Caernarvon, Wales, the district he had represented since 1890. Now 80, Lloyd George can still speak with authority, though he speaks for himself and not for a powerful party or bloc...
...Holloway Prison police doctors examined with interest last week Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart, a small female with hair falling in ringlets down her back, clad in a child's dress reaching barely to her knees...
According to the Crown prosecutor, Stuart has been playing with dolls, dressing and talking like a child of 11, systematically perpetrating one of the most successful frauds ever practiced upon Royalty-loving Britons. Still indomitable in her pretense last week, Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart insisted: "My parents were married in Westminster Abbey. I am a direct descendant of Mary Queen of Scots...
...Corgnals, affectionately known as the "priest of the Bayous," rector of St. Thomas's Catholic Church at Pointe a la Hache, La., possessor of the palm of the French Academy; in New Orleans, of pneumonia. When his parishioners refused to abandon their homes after the dynamiting of the Caernarvon levee to save New Orleans in the Mississippi flood, Father Girault stayed with them; became the only judge, jury, priest and doctor for the flooded parish of Plaquemines...