Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State for India-The Earl of Birkenhead...
...full Cabinet roster runs to 21 ministers, with six more in a secondary category and not ordinarily present at the Cabinet table-an example, the Solicitor General for Scotland, A. M. MacRobert. Two peers hold high but chiefly honorary Cabinet rank: the Earl of Balfour (Premier 1902-05), and the Marquess of Salisbury-these respectively Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Lords...
...Ashton, Idaho, Earl Kimball of the government mail service won the eleventh annual U. S. dog derby, a much shorter event. Breaking no record he covered the 25-mile course in 1 hr., 57 min., 16 sec., evoked comment by using a team of Irish setters. The latter are said to have understood the term "Mush!" perfectly, to have behaved beautifully in the absence of quail, pheasant...
What Ann Brought Home. Ann was sent to a neighboring town in Indiana for crepe de chine. She brought back a husband, as girls will. The trouble starts when the new bridegroom dreams fish farms when he should be thinking sawmill. However, it ends without a pang. Earl Carroll, known over the country for his daring revues, "bathtub" scandal, is producing the play. For him it is in the nature of a bitter gesture. He said, in as many words, that, since the public was so insistent upon cleanliness and purity in the theatre, he would give them a chance...
...Earl '30, H.B. Manager '29, and R.F. Hedges '29 took the stand to describe the treatment which Ferguson received at the hands of the police...