Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Lady May Cambridge, daughter of the Earl & Countess of Athlone, niece of Queen Mary of England; and one Henry Abel Smith, captain of the Royal Horse Guards, Lady May's father's aide while he was Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. Rumor exploded: that Lady May Cambridge would marry the Prince of Wales...
...Honorable George Lambton, fifth son of the Earl of Durham and trainer of the Earl of Derby's horses, was "frightfully annoyed" last week. He summoned the Press to explain his annoyance. One of the Honorable George's charges, a horse by the name of Caerleon, had just won the Eclipse Stakes. That in itself was all right. But Caerleon has raced frequently this summer-in the Jubilee Stakes and during Ascot week-and not only failed to place but showed such bad form that he went to the post for the Eclipse Stakes quoted...
Bronco riding was the big event and an outlaw horse of the meanest breed was Five Minutes to Midnight. Earl Thode of Belvidere, S. Dak. won the most coveted prize among cowmen when he rode the bucking beast against all comers without changing hands on the rein, losing a stirrup or pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites...
Sued for Divorce. Wladek Zbyszko Cyganiewicz, onetime (1919) world's heavyweight wrestling champion; by Vila Villi, onetime member of Earl Carroll's Vanities. Said she: "He had a playful habit of twisting my arms around behind my back...
Last week, according to dispatches, a "widely known ornithologist who desires to remain anonymous" apparently distrusted the word of Marquess & Earl. He bought St. Kilda to insure its remaining a sanctuary for sea fowl...