Word: devereux
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There was a clatter of iron hooves over the London cobbles, a flutter of knightly plumes under the royal gates, and the commoners of London, "the poor mechanicals" of the poet, ran out from their shops and gaped down the street at Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex come from the Irish bogs to make his peace with Elizabeth. The noble earl's visit was impelled more by ardor than discretion, so the old chronicle hath it, for it was early morning and the queen was not in the parlor. Elizabeth received her favorite coldly, and Essex retired...
Died. John George Milburn Jr., 52, retired member of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, Manhattan law firm; brother of Polo Player Devereux Milburn; suddenly of an internal hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Died. Harry Kelsey Devereux, 72, Cleveland socialite, onetime president of the Grand Circuit Racing Association and of the American Association of TrottingHorse Breeders, model for the drummer boy in the late A. M. Willard's* painting The Spirit of '76; at Thomasville, Ga.; of heart failure...
...Devereux Milburn, famed International poloist: the 37th annual Southern Cross Golf Tournament, at Aiken, S. C.; beating A. Allston Flagg in a 37-hole final...
...yard free style--Won by J. L. Ward '34; second, E. C. Devereux '34; third, Leveen (D). Time...