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Word: earls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand Liberal Delegates cheered these extravagant phrases, mostly for three reasons. First, a Parliamentary election draws nigh, and the Liberals, with only 41 seats in Parliament, must campaign with desperate zeal against Conservatives ("Tories") who hold 412 seats, and the Labor contingent of 157. Second, the death of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith has left David Lloyd George supreme within the Liberal Party, so that even those who dislike his theatric methods hail him as the "Man of Victory." Lastly, the kinetic personality of Orator Lloyd George nearly always sweeps his auditors off their feet. Indeed he swept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: David v. Goliath | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals, Earl Carroll's Vanities, Good Boy, Billie, Chee Chee, Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Carlton Club (founded a year later than the Garrick, but centuries older in Conservatism) seethed with indignation, last week, over the unseemly marriage of the young Earl of Bective to Lady Clarke of Rupertswood, in Brompton Oratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plank, Plank, Plank | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...EARL OF OXFORD AND ASQUITH...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Important New Fall Books | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...order of their excellence: The New Moon, Good Boy, Earl Carroll's Vanities, Cross My Heart, Luckee Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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