Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ladies about to be presented to Their Majesties should wait for hours in limousines parked along London's Mall, often jibed at by the proletariat, has long been a puzzling British inconsistency. Last week the matter received decisive attention from the Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Cromer...
Alfred Gilbert, 78, could say that he had never changed his mind for anybody. In 1893 he was Britain's most fashionable sculptor when he began a long woe by doing the winged Eros for Piccadilly Circus honoring the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It was paid for, refused, abused. Gilbert bought the bronze, $15,000 worth, himself. He refused to do another design...
...EARL R. HOAGG...
...Russian: "Workers of the World, Unite." Only one delegate from Kentucky was there, 14 others having "disappeared" in Pineville. The Washington, D. C., delegation was temporarily held in jail in Bedford, Pa. Thomas Mooney, an honorary member of the managing committee, was in jail in San Quentin, Calif. Keynoter Earl Browden of New York announced that the war-cry of the Communists' presidential campaign would be: "Jobs, Bread and Peace." Said...
...Jutland; of apoplexy; in Altona-Othmarschen, Prussia. Encountering superior British cruiser forces under Admiral Beatty (who had defeated him in the battle of Dogger Bank), Admiral Hipper outmaneuvered them, inflicted a terrific battering, but was forced to flee when the rest of the British Grand Fleet steamed up. Earl Beatty said last week: "He was a great fighter and a great fellow...