Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foremost among the twelve loomed Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, still spruce at 67, who realized in 1917 the dream of Medieval Crusaders by capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem from Infidels who are still Infidels. Likewise among the twelve is Admiral Earl Jellicoe, trim and hearty at 68, who commanded the British Grand Fleet in the victorious though costly action at Jutland (1916) after which Ger mans did not again dispute the seas with Britons. The remaining Knights inducted, last week, were: General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse, General Sir John Maxwell, Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, Admiral Sir Henry Bradwordine...
...this brilliant and tender painting, Sir Joseph assured its English owners and authorities of the government that he would leave his possession in England for a fairly long period at least before taking it to the U. S. Lady Desborough, who had inherited the canvas indirectly from the third Earl Cowper who in turn had bought it from the Niccolini Palace in Florence 150 years ago, had dealt with Sir Joseph before. In 1913 she sold him the "small Cowper Madonna," also a Raphael, which now hangs in the Widener collection at Philadelphia...
Gossips remember that the Earl of Athlone subsisted for years as a "poor relation" of British Royalty. Edward VII disliked him and was niggardly about allowing him to live rent-free in a mean suite of rooms at Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...
...sorely nettled, last week, when Labor hecklers peppered him with questions designed to make him admit that the Flappers Bill is actually opposed by three leading members of his Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead...
Only in the case of the Earl did hecklers score. They reminded Mr. Baldwin that Lord Birkenhead had recently written in the Good Housekeeping magazine (British) : "The incursion of women into. industry and politics has failed, is failing, and must of necessity fail...