Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trading Co. Buyer was Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa. Last summer the Marquess removed St. Kilda's 35 tenants, their cattle and a few sheep to Ayrshire where he owns 76,000 acres. Left behind were wild sheep, seamews and puffins. Declared the Marquess' heir, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis: "My father and I will never again permit the island to be settled' (TIME, Sept...
...elder Ogden's three children, Gladys married Banker Henry Carnegie Phipps. When the eighth Earl of Granard took Beatrice to wife in 1909, the New York Times gave the story front-page display. Ogden Jr. went to Harvard and upon his graduation (1904), much to the surprise of his family, took a law course at Cambridge. Even more surprised was his family when he began to practice his profession in New York. When he went into Republican ward politics in New York City, his kin threw up their hands in social horror. Later he explained: "I was possessed...
...expected to win but no one had expected him to win the way he did, leaving Lee Sentman of Illinois behind him at the fourth bar, winning by two full yards. His time, 14.2 sec., was | sec. better than the world's record made by Dartmouth's Earl Thomson in 1920. In the clear evening, when huge arc-lights made the grass sparkle, another world's record was broken. Policeman McDonald tossed his 35-lb. weight 21 ft. 6 in., six inches farther than the 18-year-old record set by his onetime teammate, Patrick Ryan...
...Have-meyer's father was once president of American Sugar Refining Co.. a company which in 1925 was reported to have offered Sugarman Lowry $100,000 a year to become its president. Sugarmen last week recalled the coincidence that when Mr. Lowry declined, the position was filled by Earl D. Babst who left his job as general counsel and first vice president of National Biscuit...
...none of Garnett's slyness; her implications are altogether moral. Member of an old Huguenot family that has lived in England for generations, daughter of a Victorian clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner and many another writer are glad to see her. Other books: The Love Child, As Far As Jane's Grandmother...