Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. The Hon. Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor, 24, only daughter of Eng land's famed Lord & Lady Astor; and Lord Gilbert James Heathcote-Drum mond-Willoughby de Eresby, 25, horse-racing heir of the 2nd Earl of Ancaster; in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England...
HOLLIS 10--Earl Derr Biggers, Famous detective novelist, and creator of Charlie Chan, occupied this room...
...Mahatma's followers feel that his fasts to impress Indians with the need of abolishing "untouchability" have left his more basic "civil disobedience" struggle against Britain far in the lurch. Since 1931, moreover, India has had a stern, strong-handed Viceroy- Canada's onetime Governor General, the Earl of Willingdon. His police have hounded civil disobedients so hard that last week the Executive Committee was in a mood to give up. When Mr. Gandhi's whizzing motor arrived they had before them a resolution to withdraw the whole civil disobedience struggle and seek a humble compromise with...
Married. Michael Cudahy, Chicago meat-packing scion (grandson); and Mary Jacklyn Borax, dancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Married. Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson Ogle, novelist; and Christian Eliot, nephew of Granville John Eliot, Earl of St. Germans; in Las Vegas, Nev., day after she was granted a divorce from her third husband, Arthur James Ogle in Juarez, Mex. Divorced. Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son; by Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, 21; in Minden, Nev. Elliott, who had established residence at Lake Tahoe, followed a pre-arranged program by filing suit first, charging "extreme mental cruelty" which caused...
...make an after-dinner speech at a banquet of the United Ancient Order of Druids (British social order) one sweltering London night up rose walrus-mustached, bespectacled Charles Richard John ("Sunny") Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (Baron Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and divorced husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt). He had noticed, remarked His Grace, that his confreres were squirming in black coats, swabbing their necks under hard collars. That was regrettable. He had better sense. To the consternation of every Druid, the Duke had come...