Word: dorset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl of Ilchester, Baron Ilchester and Strangways. His hobby is swans and the Government has decided to convert a great tract scarcely four miles from Ilchester's famed swannery at Abbotsbury into a nerve-racking "bombing range." It has also decided to turn much of his property in Dorset into one of the world's most powerful air bases...
...down bobbed Ilchester's small Adam's apple last week within the high, oldfashioned collar he affects. "Most lamentable!" cried he. "The land is now producing fine crops." Chiming in with His Lordship, the Dorset County Council appealed to His Majesty's Government to assemble their new air Might somewhere else. "Dorset is becoming an armed camp!" sputtered Dorset County Councilor A. H. Edwards. "We will soon be taking visitors to see not the swans of Abbotsbury but the new bombing station, then to Holton Heath to see where cordite is being made and on to Bovington...
...produced the official Speaker's portrait of Champ Clark. Other portraits were by Paul Trebilcock, Students E. Egley and Ruth Van Sant of Washington's Corcoran Gallery, Student Lloyd Embry of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Nicholas Richard Brewer of St. Paul, Edwin B. Child of Dorset...
Left. By "Aircraftsman Shaw" (Thomas Edward Lawrence), War hero of Arabia who died in a motorcycle crash in Dorset, England (TIME, May 27): $36,684, mostly to his brother...
Died. Thomas Edward Lawrence, 46, famed, mysterious War hero of Arabia; of injuries received in a motorcycle accident, caused when he swerved at high speed to avoid a child, catapulted over the handlebars; in Wool, Dorset, England. Welsh-born and Oxford-educated, Lawrence had been an archeologist in the Near East before the War broke. In Arabia he joined Feisal and Hussein (later Kings of Irak and the Hejaz), secretly raised and led Arab irregulars against the Turks. Shrewd, daring and adroit at dealing with Arabs, Lawrence made his forces "invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like...