Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany was plump Hermann Wilhelm Göring and a group of Nazi generals. Marshal Pétain and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France were there. Because U. S. Ambassador Cudahy was on vacation, busy, bald William C. Bullitt flew from Moscow to represent the U. S. The Earl of Cavan, a field marshal in the British Army, represented George...
...indeed to the ghosts of the Earl of Chatham, Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott to realize that the only place in the world where the name Whig still denotes a political party is among the blackamoors of Liberia. Whig, or Whiggamore was a Scots-Gaelic word originally applied to horse thieves, but because Liberia's independence was first proclaimed during the period of Whig supremacy in the U. S., Liberian politicians find Whig a most potent name to call themselves. Liberians went to the polls fortnight ago for the first Liberian presidential election in 4 years. Last...
...these. A cattle-town belle who inherits a fortune in Buenos Aires, she makes herself a social success in Southampton, L. I. by giving a ball at which she sings a duet from Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, climaxes her career by marrying a British earl (Paul Cavanagh...
From the King's Bench in 1618 Lord Chief Justice Sir Henry Montagu, later the first Earl of Manchester, sentenced Sir Walter Raleigh to death. With Oliver Cromwell as his second in command, Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester, won the Battle of Marston Moor...
...Great Meadow Prison, Comstock, N. Y., Earl Peacox, sentenced in 1928 to 20 years-to-life for the murder of his wife, passed his college entrance examinations, planned to enter the correspondence school of Columbia University...