Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke & Earl of England,* 16th Duke of Norfolk, 27th Earl of Arundel. presided last week at the exciting ceremony of removing from Arundel Castle's hoary vault the skeleton of his potent ancestor, the 13th Earl of Arundel, dead 336 years...
...heart of the young Duke & Earl (he is only 22) undoubtedly beat fast. If the skeleton of the Earl were found to be missing or could not be identified. Pope Pius XI would refuse beatification. But if the skeleton proved to be all right, and if suitable documents were found in the coffin, all would be well. No Howard yearns for further earthly honors; but the young Duke & Earl, educated by priests and brought up by a supremely devout mother, yearns devoutly for the holy joy of having an ancestor beatified...
...Earl Russell, under Secretary of State for India, recently died in France...
...Charlie Chaplin in famed Chaplin films. Central figure was Stanley Baldwin, while the slightly sinister Baron Beaverbrook (as Jackie Coogan) squatted on the curbstone beside him. Not so obvious to U. S. readers was Secretary of State for the Dominions Jim Thomas, sprawled on a sofa while a coronetted earl lit his cigar; Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden tripping up an ineffectual little man in a bowler hat who represents the British taxpayer...
...Canada's new Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough, on hand? When appointed (TIME, Feb. 10), he expressed an eagerness to hurry to his job. But Lord Bessborough remained in England last week, perhaps to oblige his friend Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett of Canada, who may have wished to let Canadian nationalism blow off steam...