Word: earl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill was rated the British Empire's No.1 cigar consumer (three an hour for 18 hours out of every 24). Said the rater, the pipe-smoking Earl of Halifax, Ambassador to the U.S.: "What he doesn't smoke, he eats...
Richard Gill as the Earl of Mountararat does a fine job, singing intelligently and acting well. Fred Pratt is adequate as Earl Tolloler, and Norman Cazden is also satisfactory, though he will have to learn to stand still and not force his voice if he is to be a really comic Private Willis. The male chorus sings powerfully and with gusto, and looks quite as stupid as the Peers are supposed to be (although they could hold their ceremonial robes a bit less like Indian blankets...
Indians and Indians. The Top of the Mark, the Mark Hopkins' famed skyline cocktail room, was an international tippling spot. Viscount and Lady Cranborne drank Old Fashioneds, Earl and Lady Halifax Scotch & soda, Clement Attlee plain soda water...
Final Goad. The New York Post's self-styled Saloon Editor Earl Wilson, whose usual preoccupation is with movie stars' brassieres and "derrieres," interrupted Molotov's press conference to ask whether vodka was pronounced "wodka" and whether it could "be consumed . . . without fear of internal injury." This was the final goad to Scripps-Howard's Peter Edson, who promptly exploded in type...
...runs pushed across for Quonset in the second inning of Wednesday's baseball game were enough to put the visitors out in front while Sacramentoowned pitcher Earl Anderson throttled Coach Floyd Stabl's Varsity nine, shutting them...