Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commons are summoned and hurry to stand at the bar of the Lords. Lastly, the Lord President of the King's Privy Council, Earl Balfour, kneels and presents a scroll containing "The King's Speech." Slowly it unrolls between the Sovereign's fingers and he begins to read: ". . . My relations with the Foreign Powers continue to be friendly. . . . My Government . . . my Secretary of State for India . . . my Army . . . my Navy . . . my Empire...
Sadly leading the prancing bay steed walked Sergeant Secrett, personal attendant to Earl Haig for many a year, now clad in mufti, his breast ablaze with medals won in action, his eyes streaming tears which he did not brush away...
...this sorrowful pageant not less than 1,000,000 Britons gazed reverently, last week, as it wound through three and a half miles of London streets. When the principal service began at Westminster Abbey millions more heard over the radio Earl Haig's favorite hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers. To convey the coffin within the abbey came as most august pall bearers, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Field...
...eggs so strategically in the road that to circumvent either was impossible. Resolute, she wrenched open the limousine's door and clambered in, clutching her basket, slumping down cheerily beside His Grace, who is four times a baron, twice a marquis, twice a viscount, as well as being Earl and Duke of Abercorn. Wench and Duke rode on into Belfast, jointly steadying the eggs...
Died. Leopold Guy Frances Maynard Greville, Sixth Earl of Warwick, 45, hero of three wars, British attache in 1917 to the staff of General Pershing; after a long illness; at his home in Hove, Sussex...