Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic City Gas Co.; Freund Brothers, Opticians; Shill Rolling Chair Co.; West Side Lumber Co.; Brooks & Idler, Printers. Atlantic City citizens had seen a succession of such ads, but the author of them remained anonymous. He, the only "Go-To-Church Editor" of a U. S. daily, was Robert Earl Peifer. display advertising manager of the two newspaper...
...Died. Earl C. Thompson, 59. insurance broker, one of the nine original backers of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's 1927 non-stop night from New York to Paris; of dermatomyositis (inflammation of the muscles); in St. Louis...
Grandson of the powerful Duke of Northumberland (beheaded 15 months before Philip's birth), nephew of the Earl of Leicester (rumored lover of Queen Elizabeth), godson of Philip of Spain, Sir Philip Sidney minimized his royal connections by taking as motto: Hardly do I call these things ours. A frail, handsome, serious child, he was early accustomed to "plots, conspiracies, attempted assassinations, rebellions, mutilations, headings and hangings . . . burnings at the stake." As Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy in Ireland and Lord President of Wales, his own father, a Polonius-like stalwart who advised Philip to "pray and wash...
Although the love sonnets of Astrophel and Stella were addressed to a beautiful, blonde, black-eyed married woman (daughter of the Earl of Essex), contemporaries were satisfied that Sir Philip Sidney's love-making remained a strictly literary affair. The single criticism ever to touch his reputation on that score came from Queen Elizabeth, who, always furious at the slur to her own magnetism whenever her young men married, acted when "my Philip" married as though he had gone the limit in Elizabethan sensuality...
Birthday. Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, thrice Premier of Great Britain; 70; in Stourport, England. Crippled by rheumatism, he sighed, "I am not making any more speeches this year...