Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London one midnight last week two cars pulled up before the brightly lighted house at No. 3 Belgrave Square. Out stepped two famed obstetricians, one famed anesthetist. Inside they were met by King-Emperor George V's youngest son George, Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews, Baron Downpatrick, in a fine state of nerves. Upstairs they found Nurse Louise Roberts and Nurse Ethel Smith, a bucktoothed, grey-haired favorite of the Greek royal family who had just taken a "refresher course" at St. Christopher's Nursery Training College. After eleven months of wedlock George's Greece...
Into New York Supreme Court stepped Theatrical Producer Earl Carroll to testify for onetime Showgirl Eileen Wenzel, suing the grandson of Brewer George Ehret, for damages to her beauty in an automobile smash. Said Sexpert Carroll: "She had lustrous hair of fine texture, a forehead like a snow peak and eyes that made men swoon." Said the Justice: "Strike that out. Be more specific." Said Witness Carroll: "Her eyes were bright, her teeth and mouth regular, as was her chest, her throat lovely and her lips inviting." Taking a final look at Miss Wenzel's scarred, pitted face...
...Canal. In France the post of Canal Director is a political reward for faithful service. Most French Presidents become directors. General Max Weygand was chosen to succeed the late Louis Barthou. British directors, all of whom planned to attend this week's meeting, include such bigwigs as the Earl of Cromer, Sir Thomas Royden. Sir Ian Malcolm, Sir J. T. Davies...
...Arriving in Manhattan from Moscow's recent Communist Congress, Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Red, said last week: "President Roosevelt's protest to the Soviet Government about the activities of the Congress was one of the most stupid things he could have done. . . . Roosevelt is not a Fascist but if he doesn't oppose Fascism the Fascists will eat him up. ... All of the bloc gathered around Roosevelt is headed toward Fascism...
...John Gurney Hoare, second Baronet of his line, Privy Councilor, Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India and Honorary Air Commodore of Great Britain, to one of London's most amazing town houses, No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. As gracious Lady Maud Lygon Hoare, a daughter of the Sixth Earl of Beauchamp, has said, "It is full of odds & ends we have picked up," many of them brought from distant lands...