Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other distinguished visitors during the National Assembly: pious Copperman Cleveland Earl Dodge and his pious wife; Emily Newell Blair, writer and Democratic politician; Episcopal Bishop Walter Mitchell of Arizona; Mrs. Henry Noble MacCracken, wife of the president of Vassar College; Mrs. Henry Guggenheim, wife of the onetime Ambassador to Cuba; Mr. and Mrs. F. Shepard Cornell, Manhattan socialites; Lord Addington of England; Baroness de Watteville-Berckheim of Paris; Dr. J. E. W. Duys of The Netherlands Parliament; Carl Vrooman, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Bernard Hallward, director of the Montreal Star; Herman Hintzen, Rotterdam banker; Eric Bentley, Canadian businessman...
...Under the mellow brick walls of St. James's Palace the blond, horsy young Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, led a gaudy procession to a scarlet-draped balcony. The silver trumpets of the Horse Guards blew a fanfare, then up stepped Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...
...rays and radium rarely have an effect in retarding the chainlike spread of black cancer, Dr. Frank Earl Adair of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital has found. Surgery is the only weapon, and then only as a prophylaxis...
...have the world by the tail with a downhill pull on this thing, Earl, if we work it right . . ." wrote he from Washington. "You should be here to see the jitters that some of the Congressmen are in as a result of the mandates they are receiving from their constituents. It is fun. I am always spoken of as a soft-voiced, mild-mannered old chap. I have not received an unfriendly word from a single man at the Capitol building...
...used the phrase 'dictatorship of the pro letariat' if they had dared." Weakest faction was the Left's Centre, led by Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee, whose chief desire was for peace-in-the-party. No aid to peace was the presence at Cleveland of Earl Browder, head of the U. S. Communist party, who appeared with a polite proposal that the Communists and Socialists unite on a ticket for 1936 to be headed by Norman Thomas and Earl Browder. To this Mr. Thomas turned a cold shoulder, preferring if possible to avoid a new split...