Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother explaining he felt he was being a financial hindrance to her and his sister; wrote appointments of schoolmates as pallbearers; marched to the stage of the school auditorium, took out a revolver similar to one he had brandished lately in the school play, (Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers) and shot himself...
Only a very, very tired T. B. M. could get much of a thrill out of the heralded "Vanities", Earl Carroll's Fourth Edition, now playing at the Shubert. It would be charitable even to play with the name, and besides there are more damning criticisms for a revue than "inane", though certainly it is that. Perhaps the show is languishing with the man who gave it birth. Perhaps it never was any better and its 13 month run in New York is just a sad and true commentary on the fact that it takes all kinds of people...
...famed for Herrin killings-are leaderless. Birger himself captained one gang; now he plays pinochle with himself in a jail cell at Benton, Ill., while eight armed deputies patrol the corridors. The other faction, led by the three Shelton brothers, also "mourns leaders' absence," for recently, Carl, Earl and Bernie Shelton entered Leavenworth Penitentiary, began 25-year sentences for robbing U.S. mails in Collinsville, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1925. Perhaps there may be a lull in Williamson County battle, murder and sudden death...
Since this mummery had been imperfectly timed last week, the Commons came scrambling after the Black Rod into the House of Lords with unseemly haste. Soon the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Balfour, knelt and presented to His Majesty a scroll containing "The King's Speech." In clear, vibrant tones, distinctly audible to everyone, George V read what purported to be his own speech...
Married. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, 26, son and heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury; to Sylvia Hawkes, actress, in London. They defied the Earl, who dashed to London in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the marriage. The bride had to carry her wedding ring in her hand, as it proved to be too small for her finger...