Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After thoroughly "covering" East Africa the Princes will proceed to South Africa and spend Christmas in Cape Town with their austere, not very popular uncle the Earl of Athlone, brother to Her Majesty Queen Mary, and Governor General of the Union of South Africa...
...Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals, Earl Carroll's Vanities...
Lilacs. Lilacs bloom for Christmas when Dr. Frank Earl Denny, research director of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Yonkers wishes it. Likewise two crops of potatoes grow for him where only one obliges the efforts of another. Nature has given plants a dormancy period which is the plague of horticulturists. Dr. Denny found that exposure to the vapors of ethylene chlorhydrin and ethylene dichloride waked plants up immediately...
Secretary Earl Baker, of the Committee, cabled from Shanghai, last week, that the myriads of grasshoppers which partially caused the famine by devouring crops are now being devoured in turn by famished humans. Fat grasshoppers are fought...
...Ephesian" is supposed to be a mystery to his U. S. publishers-a mystery not cleared up by U. S. reviewers of the book up to last week-it is becoming well known among London literatti that "Ephesian" is Mr. Bechofer Roberts, a distinguished part-time secretary to the Earl of Birkenhead; one of the great men whom he has biographed. Since Lord Birkenhead was famed as Mr. "F. E." Smith before his elevation, and since "Ephesian," when pronounced, sounds like " 'F. E.' sian," it was supposed for a time that the noble Earl had himself penned these...