Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fingers. But he has other demands on his sympathy-he is half-Irish, one brother-in-law is an Irish revolutionary, later caught and executed, another is a German noble, his father is an extreme Tory M. P., who favors reprisals in Ireland, his father-in-law is an Earl perched on a dizzy pinnacle of aristocracy, his brother, a Black and Tan, is shot by a sniper. Furthermore, Bertram Pollard has an uncommonly soft heart. He can no more hate and despise the " mob" with whom he fought in France than he can turn his back on his Tory...
Some of the "big" names appearing on the prospectuses of large distilling and brewing concerns: Field Marshal Earl Haig, connected with the firm of Haig & Haig; Lord Dewar, director of John Dewar & Co.; Viscount Iveagh, with whom are connected his sons, Captain Lord Elveden, Commander Sir Algernon Guinness, and Colonel the Hon. Walter Guinness, head of the great brewing firm...
...Earl Leon Shoup, of Topeka, Kansas...
Sell Poppies for Earl Haig's Fund...
...anniversary of the Armistice undergraduates turned themselves into street hawkers and sold Poppies in aid of Earl Haig's "Fund for Disabled Soldiers". Over 600 pounds were collected, which is a record in Cambridge for a one day collection. Part of the scheme for attracting money consisted of a mock circus consisting of undergraduates dressed up in the skins of animals who paraded the town making appropriate noises. The evening was much quieter than usual and very few bonfires were lighted where they ought not to have been...