Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange case of Midshipman Earl B. Zirkle of Kansas, who would not accept an ensign's commission on graduation from the U. S. Naval Academy last June came last week to an impasse...
...Earl Carroll's Vanities. The fifth and grossest of all edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, in spite of an irrelevant dash of Spanish atmosphere, presents the most authentic (but not at all unusual) impression of a medical student's nightmare. Bodies! Bodies! Bodies! Stuck all over the stage. Hung in midair, on dangling hooks. Rigid-as the law requires. Slowly they are wheeled in circles, yanked up, let down, by fiendish, invisible agencies. Occasionally they spring into action, appear as living, writhing creatures. Into this horror have strayed a few bits of freshness-Magda de Bries...
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, was en route to Russia aboard H. M. S. Hampshire on June 5, 1916. So much and no more the world knows of Kitchener. Why the Hampshire sank is not positively known, though conclusive evidence has been adduced to show that she sank as a result of the explosion of a submarine mine. Because so little is known, or because there is so little to know of the presumptive death by drowning of Lord Kitchener, the press has been flooded with recurrent rumors that: a) He was seen in an open...
Frederick Edwin ("Galloper") Smith, 54, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), First Baron Birkenhead (1919), First Earl of Birkenhead (1922), has met success as often as any man in England (TIME, May 3). There are those who, reflecting on his delight in a cold bottle and a warm companion, would scarcely call his wooing of success quite "gentlemanly." But the present Secretary of State for India, brilliant, resourceful, has at least no false pride...
...honored and revered great-grandfather, Anson G. Phelps, bequeathed to my father $5,000 . . . the income therefrom to be devoted to the spread of the Gospel and to promote the Kingdom of the Redeemer on Earth . . . I bequeath the said sum of $5,000 to my son, Cleveland Earl Dodge ... to be sacredly appropriated as was directed in my grandfather's will...