Word: earldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in his old age, friends & foes claimed that Lloyd George could still "talk a bird out of a tree." Last summer he returned to the 400-year-old farmhouse of his boyhood for his "last days." He finally accepted an earldom from a grateful government (TIME, Jan. 8). Of him Winston Churchill said: "There is no history like his in living memory. . . . Indeed, history will have to return her pages back to Chatham to find his parallel...
...little Welsh wizard," still talked of him as a statesman in his prime. But David Lloyd George, 82 years old this month, realized that 54 straight years in Britain's House of Commons was enough, and said so. A grateful government rewarded him with an earldom...
Latest aristocratic casualty is Lord Stuart, youthful heir to the Earldom of Castle Stuart, who died on the Italian front. Two years ago his elder, brother was killed in North Africa. Other aristocrats who have died in World...
...Handsome Irish Major John Henry George Crichton, 8th Earl of Erne and Lord-in-Waiting to the King, whose father died in France in 1914, was killed fighting a new generation of the same foe. The earldom descended to his son, aged...
...Earl of Chicago, persevering Robert Montgomery is at some pains to show them they were wrong. As Silky, a sly, post-Prohibition Chicago gangster, who inherits an ancient and honorable British earldom, young Mr. Montgomery proves that his criminal instincts are sound. His triumph is all the more thumping because, as a movie, The Earl of Chicago never quite knows where it is going. Starting as a comedy in Chicago, it turns into stark drama under the impact of British manners and manors. Silky, once a carefree, moronic young mobster, snapping rubber bands at a pair of shapely legs (their...