Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bootblack and the neighborhood grocer (Guy Kibbee). When his grandfather's solicitor (Henry Stephenson) calls to announce that Ceddie is heir to the Earldom of Dorincourt, Ceddie and Dearest embark for England. When they get there the tragic separation of Ceddie and his mother, whom the crotchety Old Earl (Smith) refuses to meet, is soft-pedaled. The emphasis is placed on Ceddie's dealings with his grandfather, upon whom his influence is so healthy that the Old Earl presently stops dunning his tenants, takes to churchgoing, is cured of his gout. The menace of an imposter Qackie Searl...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet the Earl David Beatty, Viscount Borodale of Wexford and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brocksby, 65, commander of the British battle cruiser squadron at the controversial Battle of Jutland; of a severe cold aggravated by marching in a drizzle at King George V's funeral; in London...
...Manhattan at 10:45 one evening last week Earl Russell Browder, general secretary of the U. S. Communist Party, was scheduled to speak for 15 minutes over the Columbia Broadcasting System. It was the first time a full-fledged, thoroughgoing Red had ever appeared officially on a national radio network. That morning readers of Hearst's New York American, glancing down the list of Station WABC's evening programs, found Boake Carter at 7:45, Cordell Hull at 8:30, Walter O'Keefe at 9, Ed Wynn at 9:30. The program note for 10:45: "Talk...
When neat Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson of Manhattan got up to talk about palsies caused by rough handling during birth the physicians enthusiastically rose and cheered him. Injured in that way. Dr Carlson was once obliged to wear boots oversized pants and slipover sweaters be cause his unruly hands could not lace am button his clothes. People treated him a an idiotic cripple. Eventually his innate wit and grit took command of his muscles He went to Princeton, to Yale, opened clinic and two private schools for treatment of the defect (TIME, May 30, 1932) The basis of treatment...
...EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MISCELLANY - edited by Louis Kronenberger-Putnam ($3). Nine selections from the poetry and prose of the Age of Reason, with an introduction pointing out how little the present age has in common with it. Sterne, Blake, Sheridan, Gibbon, Walpole, Swift, Pope, Gay and the Earl of Chester field serve as examples...