Word: earldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This honorary officership in the army of the Church Militant was 65 years in coming to Father Quirk. Born in Ireland 91 years ago, he fought in the U. S. Civil War, became a priest in 1870, is supposed to have twice renounced his rights to an earldom. Alert old Father Quirk has ministered for half a century to three mountain parishes 15 miles apart. Devoted to his collie "Shep," his blackened pipe, his comfortable Congress gaiters and his crushed black hat, he refused until last year to accept an automobile from his flock, preferring to ride from parish...
...congenial spirit. She was a handsome, vigorous, earthy girl, daughter of a knight and lately down from Cambridge with highest honors. He married her, he explained, not because he thought it was his social duty but because he wanted to legitimatize his son to succeed to the Russell earldom...
Because he ran away from his family to become a circus acrobat in Switzerland and a cowboy in the U. S. before his father died and an earldom descended heavily upon him, Lord Lonsdale gives a party to circus folk once a year. Last week he attended one given to the bandy-legged members of a U. S. rodeo troupe now touring England. Cables flashed and the Empire was shocked when His Grace, at the climax of hilarity, boasted: "I remember Denver when it was only one shack. When I first saw Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, there was only...
...Chief of the British Delegation to the Washington Conference, at which he fell in with Charles Evans Hughes' aspirations for disarmament, diverted the U. S. from any possibility of constructing a greater navy than Britannia's, and went home to receive the Garter and his Earldom...