Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount and Baron Wimborne (onetime [1915-18] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland); Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Baron Dundas (onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown...
...Belmont, is alleged to have appeared before the Catholic Diocesan Court at Southwark, Eng., with her mother last July, and deposed that she was forced by parental duress to consent to marry in 1895 Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Baron Spencer, Baron Churchill, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, Knight of the Garter, descendant of "England's greatest general" John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), the victor of Blenheim...
...concrete illustration Marshal Foch recalled his conference with General Pershing and General Haig on the eve of the final Allied Grand Offensive (1918). General Pershing said that his men were insufficiently trained and tried. "How can I throw them into a big offensive?" Sir Douglas (now Earl) Haig insisted that his army was "shot to pieces," asked, "How can we advance...
Slagle of Princeton sat on a bench with a blanket over him. Fortnight ago he had hurt his leg against Harvard. It was Earl Baruch, sophomore halfback, who ran with the ball, who booted it through gulfs of air, who threw the pass Dan Caulkins carried to a touchdown and who kicked the goal that beat a Yale team...
...Until last February Sir Alfred Mond was, politically, a Liberal leader in association with Mr. Lloyd George and the Earl of Asquith and Oxford (TiME, Feb. 1). Now he considers himself a Conservative, like his relative-in-law, the Marquis of Reading, whose heir (Gerald Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh) married Sir Alfred Mond's daughter (Eva Violet). Together with the Rothschilds, Montagus, and Sassoons, theirs are the most prominent of many potent Jewish families in England...