Word: earldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Squaw Man) details the adventures of the Earl of Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings, an energetic and willing chorus, make The White Eagle satisfactory if somewhat grandiloquent entertainment...
...property in Liverpool, Bootle, Kirkdale and Walton consisted of free hold and ground rents on 20,000 houses, Lord Derby retaining all his rights as lord of the various manors. These rights have endured ever since the creation of the earldom...
...Viscount of the Irish peerage, i. e., although an English nobleman he had no seat in the House of Lords. For 40 years he steadily refused to accept an English Earldom...
...Earldom of Clarendon was created in 1661 and bestowed upon Edward Hyde, the great Elizabethan historian-statesman...
...might have shown a preference in the naming of his earldom for some title as hoar in honor as the first half of that possessed by nouveau Lord Oxford and Asquith. Instead, little Freddy Smith, grown up into one of England's greatest barrister-statesmen proclaimed his origin by choosing the name of a city scarcely older than himself...