Word: clarendon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the eight paintings, also are a portrait of the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor under Charles II, of Justice Abney of the Court of Common Pleas under George II, and Sir Nathan Wright, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under William and Mary...
Married. Col. Charles Goodnight, "Father of the Texas Panhandle," to Corinne Goodnight, 26, (no relative) on his 91st birthday; at Clarendon...
...book on taxidermy, advertised in the Youth's Companion, was what started the Clarendon, N. Y., farm boy on his notable career. At 19 he was hired by a Rochester, N. Y., museum keeper to help stuff skins. Young Akeley knew animals too well to tolerate the straw-and-stick effigies contrived by his employer. He proposed and developed the plaster cast method used today by all museums. Later he evolved perspective backgrounds, painted in oils, to show specimens in their natural surroundings. His "Fighting Bulls" (elephants) at the entrance of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought him wide fame...
...million British radio license holders learned with mingled feelings last week that the Government broadcasting monoply will shortly be placed under the chairmanship of George Herbert Hyde Villiers, the Earl of Clarendon...
...Earldom of Clarendon was created in 1661 and bestowed upon Edward Hyde, the great Elizabethan historian-statesman...