Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toward mighty Khyber Pass, the Empire's most romantic and reputedly most dangerous frontier, traveled Earl Willingdon last week, taking along the golden throne on which he sits as Viceroy of India. For this elaborate pilgrimage there were urgent reasons of state...
...Traveling last week from Peiping to Mukden, onetime Manchurian Capital, members of the Earl of Lytton's League of Nations Commission were saluted at Chinchow by White Russian troops acting as railway guards for the Japanese...
...repeated, "a straight grained pipe." Come, come, such a house as Dunhill's must have heard of a wood with a straight grain. They had. Worse they had a waiting list for those who wanted them. Would be have his name entered? The Duke of Peterborough, Lord Lounsbury, Earl of Ludgate, Lord Gray of Shasta and Mount Hellicon, The Vagabond. No he thought not. He was rather sure not. No, he really didn't need or require a straight grained pipe. It was all a joke, a hideous, ill-timed joke. Show him anything, give him anything. Half England...
...Commemorating the death in 1881 of that great statesman whose favorite flower was the primrose and who sent so many of them to Queen Victoria: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield...
Died. Robert A. King, 72, song writer; of heart disease, immediately after hearing a radio broadcast of his last composition ("One Day in May"); in Manhattan. A writer of hits for 50 years, he sold five million copies of his waltz "Beautiful Ohio," written under the pseudonym Mary Earl...