Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also agree and promise to appoint Claude Worley as chief of police and Earl Klenck as captain...
...million British radio license holders learned with mingled feelings last week that the Government broadcasting monoply will shortly be placed under the chairmanship of George Herbert Hyde Villiers, the Earl of Clarendon...
...Earl, of whom it has been said that he does not know a vacuum tube from a tuning condenser, once served during three years (1922-25) as Captain of His Majesty's Gentlemen-at-Arms, the theoretical guardians of the Sovereign's person. As the onetime (1922-24, and 1925) Conservative whip in the House of Lords and present Under Secretary for Dominion Affairs he is thought to have deserved well of his party the ?5,000 ($25,000) per annum sinecure of Britain's broadcasting tsar...
Whoever wrote this book (and it must have been a woman) is capable of endowing synthetic images with all the tangibility of unsatisfactory reality. The senile Earl, convinced that she is some patrician Griselda of fifty years ago, takes her into the ancient garden and loads her with roses; and the barmaid's grand-daughter feeling the aristocratic half of her ancestry partakes momentarily in all the slim, high haughtiness that must have been Griselda's. At the other end of the scale stands Miss Tiverton's black cat, sleek and scornful the most satisfactory cat since Dick Whittington...
...London editor flayed last week the following opinions expressed by characters in the second volume of H. G. Wells's newly released novel The World of William Clissold: George V, R. I. is "the worthy, conscientious, entirely unmeaning and uninteresting son of plump old Edward VII." The Earl of Balfour, "that damned madonna lily; . . . grows where he is planted." Lloyd George is as "clever as six foxes Margot Asquith: " Wherever- there is a foreground there also will be the Countess of Oxford and Asquith...