Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every morning at seven, the Weather permitting, His Grace the Earl of Rosebery, Baron Primrose, Baron Epsom of Epsom, rides out over Epsom Downs in what the Times has declared to be "perhaps the only private carriage in England which is still guided by postilions...
Archibald Philip Primrose is now in his 78th year. He was Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. He is the last surviving Earl to have held the Premiership before Britain's gradual democratization rendered that office practically reserved to commoners. He was the first Briton ever to own a horse which won the Derby while its owner was Prime Minister, an altitude of bliss which only British sovereigns who have tried to "win the Derby" and failed can fully appreciate. In 1878 the Times and many another British newspaper listed in slightly over two columns "the more notable wedding presents...
...everyone knows, the triumvirate at the head of the Liberal Party has long consisted of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith (official leader), Mr. Lloyd George (leader by popular consent) and Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, famed Jewish chemical industrialist, who served as Commissioner of Works and later as Minister of Health in Premier George's Cabinet...
Last week the Earl of Oxford and Asquith ripped open a long, ominous-looking envelope; gave vent to several expressions almost as pungent as those for which his wife "Margot" is famous. Before him lay the resignation from the Liberal party of Sir Alfred Mond, with the added declaration that Sir Alfred will hereafter consider himself a Conservative, and the explanation that he has taken this action because the Land Tenure Reform scheme to which Mr. Lloyd George has pledged the Liberals (TIME, Dec. 12 et ante) amounts, in Sir Alfred's opinion, to "nationalization of agricultural lands...
...Shubert Earl Carroll's Vanities," at 8.00 Chiefly notable for a number of clever skits and the fact that all the women in the show are awful...