Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "There has been no more spectacular career in our time than his. . . . He is frankly an adventurer, and declares himself...
...Smith, Viscount Furneaux and Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "As a member of the fashionably rowdy London Kit-Cat Club I assumedly viewed with alarm the publicity which it received last week, due to the shocking behavior of a Lord. Driven by one 'Teddy Oysters,' valiant old-school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering...
David Beatty, Earl of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet (British), First Sea Lord: "As I dined in state with many a guest, last week, at my estate, the Priory, Reigate, England, the roof caught fire. I, the hero of Jutland, watched the firemen until, convinced that they were louts, I climbed up a gutter pipe to direct their efforts. Stoutly, I shouted commands. My wife, the irrepressible daughter of the late Marshall Field (Dry Goods), cried to our guests: 'You see, the boy stands on the burning deck! Lord Beatty can resist everything but the temptation to command...
...achieved a considerable reputation not alone for his writing but for his activities in the dissolute society of the Earl of Rochester. As the grew more disreputable, his patron age, gradually disappeared, and a year later, his mind was completely unhinged. Five years were spent in Bethlehem Hospital where he to some extent recovered but not very long after leaving the Hospital he died in a drunken...
...Earl Carroll: "I sailed last week for Manhattan from England, where I have just been enjoying a quiet holiday before my forthcoming Manhattan retrial for perjury (TIME, May 31) in connection with a party, at which one of my chorus girls emerged naked from a bath of champagne. Dining in London with a dramatic critic, I remarked: 'I find that in America leg shows bring cultured people all around me. In fact. I might be a prizefighter.' 'Then you would be popular over here,' said he. 1 replied: 'I might even be made Knight...