Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gloriana (by Ferdinand Bruckner) is about Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon. Robert Cecil, Philip II of Spain, Northumberland. Mountjoy and many another Elizabethan. It makes all of them out dull people...
After ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was made an Earl last year, a writer on Beaverbrook's Evening Standard casually summed up the long-standing political feud between the two men, concluding: ''Did Beaverbrook get anything from it? Yes. He got an attack of asthma. He has it still. He is no longer a political force...
...most obvious alibi is that Dartmouth had to play under weather conditions far different than those at home. To practice in snow storms and zero weather, then make a tiring train trip, and then to play with the thermometer hovering near 70, is not easy. Little wonder that Coach Earl Blaik's line collapsed toward...
...week. But against Cornell's stonewall line, Dartmouth met its Waterloo. In one of the most exciting games of the week, a great Cornell team reminiscent of the days of George Pfann and Eddie Kaw, bottled up the famed Dartmouth backfield trio of MacLeod, Hutchinson and Howe, handed Earl Blaik's Green team its first defeat (14-10-7) in two years and laid claim to the mythical Ivy League championship...
Whether or not Heavenly Gates knew he was being ribbed by a student, he went next day to Coach Earl Blaik, began practicing. In the Yale game he helped Dartmouth win, 24-to-6. But next day he scribbled a note of resignation from college, departed for a farm near Amherst, 90 miles away in the New Hampshire hills. Dartmouth's Dean Lloyd Kellock Neidlinger, who knew where Gates had gone, went after him. On the farm was a branch of a famed old New England cult-the Holy Ghost and Us Society (or Legion...