Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peerage of England, the illustrious Howards stand next to the Blood Royal. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk is empowered, as the hereditary Earl Marshal of England, to bear ''in the King's presence or absence" a golden staff, the upper part adorned with the arms of the Royal Family, the nether part with those of the Family of Howard. The great Duke of Norfolk is charged as Earl Marshal with the proclamation of a new King's accession, with the supervision of the funeral of a late King, of the Coronation of his successor...
...Pursuivants, appointments to these coveted offices being under control of the Duke of Norfolk. Last week precisely at 10 a. m. in colorful and resplendent uniforms, there stepped out upon the ivy-clad and scarlet-draped main balcony of St. James's Palace the young Duke as Earl Marshal, the Garter King of Arms, the Norroy King of Arms and the Clarenceux King of Arms; the four Pursuivants, namely Bluemantle, Portcullis, Rouge Croix and Rouge Dragon; the Herald of York, the Herald of Windsor, the Herald of Richmond, the Herald of Chester, the Herald of Somerset and the Herald...
...Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King George and in the earl's house Carol II was styled officially a "guest of King Edward VIII," the explanation being offered that other foreign kings & queens were occupying all available suites in Buckingham Palace...
...Alfred Church Lane, 72, Tufts lost a distinguished geologist, onetime president of the Geological Society of America. Old Dr. Lane, well past the retirement age and eligible for a pension, observed that his fellow casualty ''has much more at stake." But Economist Earl Micajah Winslow, 39, a Mayflower descendant and a Quaker, will probably be welcomed as a martyr on the faculty of any university in the 22 states which have no teachers' oath...
Married. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 63, famed mathematician, philosopher, pacifist, author, lecturer, advocate of complete sexual freedom including marital infidelity; and Patricia Helen Spence, 25, writer; at Midhurst, Sussex, England. Year ago Earl Russell's second wife, mother of an illegitimate son by a journalist, divorced him for adultery (TIME...