Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, where-contrary to general belief-night clubs rarely flourish, famed Earl Carroll last week opened the most elaborate cabaret-theatre-restaurant on the West Coast, equipped with almost an acre of floor space, patent-leather ceiling, two concentric revolving stages...
This is Herr Ickes! The German press recently called Britain's venerable Earl Baldwin a "guttersnipe" for expressing far less fiery sentiments. It met the Ickes salute with a fantastic bombardment...
...speech at Bradford, President of the Board of Education Earl De La Warr (pronounced "Delaware") despaired of ever appeasing the dictators: "There is a growing feeling that there is nothing we can do to satisfy them, that friendly words and friendly actions are mistaken for cowardice, and that only armaments can speak effectively...
...dinner last week at 69 Eaton Square, London, the home of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, now Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, went His Majesty King George VI. Tory that he is, Earl Baldwin invited to eat, drink and smoke informally with His Majesty eight Laborite and Liberal leaders who had never before met the King. Some thought that Earl Baldwin, privately vehemently critical of the Chamberlain Government, was hatching a palace plot against the Prime Minister. Better explanation: the King, symbol of the nation, was simply making friends with men who might be needed in a crisis. This could...
Married. Mrs. Audrey James Coats Field, 36, goddaughter of King Edward VII and second of Marshall Field Ill's three wives, longtime glamor girl; and Peter Pleydell-Bouverie, 29, brother of an Earl; in London...