Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's mouthpiece, the Earl of Plymouth, chairman of the Sub-Committee of the International Committee on Nonintervention, early last week succeeded in pushing through that body Britain's long-discussed plan for quarantining the Spanish War in Spain. Soviet Russia finally acquiesced. Main features of the plan were closing of land frontiers, greater vigilance of ships going to Spain, stationing of neutral observers in big Spanish ports, counting of foreigners fighting on either side, eventual withdrawal. There was a chance that this agreement actually was an agreement-for three days. Then...
...mistress of vast, gloomy, allegedly haunted Glamis (pronounced Glarms) Castle in Scotland, legendary scene of Macbeth's murder of Duncan, died of heart disease last week in London. She was the hardworking, domestic, society-shunning Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, wife of the 83-year-old 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Descendant of England's famed Cavendish and Bentinck families, the daughter of a clergyman grandson of the. third Duke of Portland, the Countess was the mother of ten children, six of them still living. By far her most noted child is England's Queen Elizabeth...
Formal court mourning is an expensive undertaking against which many London businesses-notably caterers-are insured. The English court never prescribes mourning for those not of the Royal Family, no matter how close their relationship. Death of the Queen's mother proved no exception. The Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain, announced "no commands for Court mourning will be issued by the King," added that "Their Majesties will observe family mourning as also will members of the Royal households when in attendance upon Their Majesties...
Congratulations to a magazine that has the courage to frontpage Earl Browder and by so doing may expect to receive the ridicule and abuse of such 100% (?) Americans as threw rotten eggs at an elected and honored U. S. Congressman...
Born. To the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, Duchess of Norfolk, 22, England's youngest duchess, and Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard. Duke of Norfolk, 30. England's Premier Duke and Earl; their first child, a daughter; in London...