Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luck of a tall, tawny young woman who won prodigiously at Baccarat, cashed in her chips, stuffed into the décolleté bosom of her gown a bulging bundle of 1,000 franc notes, and whirled out upon the dance floor in the arms of one Earl Leslie...
Demure was London's Betty Compton. Her smile was mischievous but reliable. She lived 148 years ago, but she is still remembered. Reason: Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her portrait. At the time she was 20. She was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Northampton. Her combined hair & wigs piled up enormously above her white brow, bright eyes, little pointed chin. She concealed her slenderness in an embonpoint of drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers. Sir Joshua painted her against an expanse of foliage. Her parents paid him about $1,050. It meant nothing to debutante Betty. When...
...less auspicious than this cash endorsement by leading advertisers** seemed the roster of Britannia's first three star contributors: Benito Mussolini, Arnold Bennett, the Earl of Birkenhead...
...Conferred the Most Exalted Order of The Star of India upon the Earl of Birkenhead, when he resigned as Secretary of State for India...
...Bestowed Knighthood in the Most Noble Order of the Garter (the highest honor in the gift of the Crown) upon His Majesty's close and sportsmanly friend, Col. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 71, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, who is also Viscount and Baron Lowther, Lord Lieutenant and Gustos Rotulonim* of Cumberland, Colonel of the Westmorland and Cumberland Imperial Yeomanry. Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland, and late Master of the smart Cottesmore Hounds...