Word: earldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Failing eyesight and mental depression broke his health. The Crown, anxious to honor him, offered him an earldom last May, but Scot MacDonald turned it down lest it crimp the political chances of his son Malcolm who. as Secretary of State for the Dominions, hustled back from the Brussels Conference last week to arrange his father's funeral. Because doctors worried greatly over Scot MacDonald's increasing melancholia, he was sent on the Reina del Pacifico cruise with his youngest daughter, Sheila, for companion. With his body still at sea. the British Government proffered him the honor...
...thought it would be. By an act of Parliament, passed after the will was made, Mr. MacDonald is entitled to a pension of $10,000 a year as a onetime Prime Minister. Moreover, because fortnight ago he decided to stay in the House of Commons rather than accept an earldom (TIME, June 7), he will get an additional $3,000 a year as long as he is a member of Parliament...
First item of business was for the new Prime Minister to "advise" His Majesty to confer an earldom and a knighthood in the Order of the Garter on Mr. Baldwin, to create Mrs. Lucy Baldwin a Dame 'Grand Cross of the British Empire. The Earl and his Countess thus reaped the reward of their joint services to the country, could retire among their pigs in Worcestershire with the calm eye, the warm glow that bespeak the performance of hard work well-recompensed...
Famed as a disciplinarian, he took the unpopular post-War job of British High Commissioner to Egypt (1919-25). The thankless business of suppressing Egyptian riots is supposed to have lost him an earldom. A squarejawed, heavyset, vigorous man, he specialized in English and Spanish literature and in his collection of birds, live and dead. For special pets he had a war-horse called Hindenburg and a marabou stork...
Ceddie (Bartholomew) is discovered in Brooklyn where his best friends are the apple woman on the corner, the bootblack and the neighborhood grocer (Guy Kibbee). When his grandfather's solicitor (Henry Stephenson) calls to announce that Ceddie is heir to the Earldom of Dorincourt, Ceddie and Dearest embark for England. When they get there the tragic separation of Ceddie and his mother, whom the crotchety Old Earl (Smith) refuses to meet, is soft-pedaled. The emphasis is placed on Ceddie's dealings with his grandfather, upon whom his influence is so healthy that the Old Earl presently stops...