Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polite tempest of gossip and denial that the great Earl of Birkenhead would resign as Secretary of State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is always sad. Your own personality has converted a Cabinet which assembled upon the crater of some bitter and recent memories into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection."-Birkenhead...
...Knight of the Thistle is the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Claud George Bowes-Lyon, a descendant of Scottish kings far more ancient in lineage than is Britain's Royal House. The Earl, pious and as Scotch as the Thistle itself, is at pains to uphold the motto of his House: In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust...
...many a tree, personally inspecting branches that might need pruning. Even now, at 73, he ministers to favorite trees from the ground, with a long pruning-saw, much resembling a medieval spear. As he prowls, thus accoutred, around his excessively historic Glamis Castle, romantic persons enjoy fancying that the Earl resembles an early owner of his domain, King Macbeth of Scotland (reigned 1040-57), who, as Shakespeare has told, murdered King Duncan in Glamis Castle...
...Robert II of Scotland begot a daughter from Elizabeth Mure (first mistress, later queen), married the girl to doughty John Lyon, gave him Glamis Castle. Thence the House of Bowes-Lyon descends in unbroken line. Succeeding ancestors were created Baron Glamis (Scotch Creation, 1445), Lord Glamis (English Creation, 1606), Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 1677, and Baron Bowes (United Kingdom Creation, 1887). All these titles of course reside in the present Premier Peer of Scotland, 14th Earl of Strathmore, Claud George Bowes-Lyon...
...Earl Carroll is reported in today' issue of this paper as preparing to treat an entirely new phase of the athletic situation. If this is true, and who but a federal judge would doubt it, he is going to absurd lengths to put the idea over. Anyone who can shed new light on athletics has little need for fifty proven strong men to help him. He should be writing for the newspapers. Single handed he could command a larger sum for a single Sunday appearance than his whole stage full of helpers will attract in a winter. The daily Sartores...