Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grew restless as the hour of their august dinners approached and the Earl de la Warr, Viscount Haldane, and Barons Parmoor, Arnold, Thomson, ("Labor Peers") began a determined filibuster against the bill...
...forget it," laughed the sea-planist, speeding the gently flapping propeller of his plane, the Turtle II, taxiing off, taking the air, heading across the Sound toward Long Island. More than 24 hours elapsed before newsgatherers ascertained that "the first flying lifesaver" was undemonstrative Earl Dodge Osborne of College Point, L. I., one of the publishers of Aviation (weekly...
...Earl Birkenhead. "Every member of this House knows that not one of the peeresses proposed for admission would be nominated by any competent tribunal to any legislative body at all. . . . Some of these ladies were made peeresses because otherwise there was no prospect of a male heir. Many of them have proved disappointing even from that standpoint. . . . The entire method of constituting the House of Lords ought to be changed, and when that is done women ought to be selected from the whole population of the country...
Died. Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, fourth Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 85, twice challenger for the famed America's (yachting) Cup (with Valkyrie II, 1893 and Valkyrie III, 1895, both designed by Watson; defeated respectively by Vigilant and Defender, both designed by Herreshoff) ; at London...
...Paul's, London, the Earl of Crawford unveiled as a memorial to John Singer Sargent a bronze crucifix The Redemption-executed by that painter 20 years ago. "We commonly say," said the Earl, "that every man's work is his own monument. What is metaphorically a truism is here an actual fact...