Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DESOLATE SPLENDOR?Michael Sadleir?Putnam ($2.00). Here is all the mechanism of a mid-Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle...
Lady Phyllis King, daughter of the Earl of Lovelace: " A special cable to The Louisville Courier-Journal picks me to marry Edward of Wales...
...Earl Bartholomew, A.B., S.B., (Mechanical Engineering...
...engagement is announced of Lady Rachel Cavendish, fourth daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, to the Honorable James Gray Stuart, third son of the 17th Earl of Moray...
Captain James Stuart is an offspring of that famous family that once sat on the throne: the first Earl of Moray was the natural son of James V of Scotland and halfbrother of Mary, Queen of Scots...