Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steaming gruel, juicy lamb chops, southern -cooked biscuits, crisp bacon all went into Room 19 and came back almost untouched. Doctors, nurses, urged the patient to eat, but Earl Carroll would only turn his head away, answer: "I can't, I can't." In some two months his weight had dropped from 145 to 130 pounds. Propped up on his pillows, eyes closed, long wisps of hair straggling across his high forehead, he lay in what one observer called a state of "cell shock," his mind apparently focussed on the prison sentence that lay before...
...months, lay Earl Carroll, Manhattan theatrical producer, sentenced to a year and a day in Atlanta Penitentiary after being convicted of perjury in connection with Miss Joyce Hawley's famed champagne bath at the Carroll party of Feb. 22, 1926. Collapsing en route to Atlanta (April 13), he had been taken to the Greenville (S. C.) Hospital, had there remained...
...Attorney General said also that he saw no reason for referring Mr. Carroll's case to the President (for executive clemency) and that his sentence would begin from the time he entered the jail, not from the time he entered the hospital. So Earl Carroll entered Atlanta, was taken to the prison hospital, became No. 24,909. Despatches said that when he regains his health he will be given the position of bath house orderly...
...train time drew near Chargé d'Affaires Rosengolz kissed Mr. Lansbury, Mr. Saklatvala and many another in the usual continental fashion?on both cheeks. Then he launched into a farewell speech, mentioning Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill by name, and calling them the statesmen chiefly responsible for "this unwarranted, insane step" by the Cabinet...
...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...