Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British point of view was Guest Dawes's handling of the Vintners' massy, golden wassail cup. Brimming with stout English sack specially brewed of old sherry and spices the Vintners' Cup was supposed to be deeply quaffed in sociable succession, first by Toastmaster the sporting Earl of Derby, second by Ambassador Dawes, third by jovial Publisher-Peer Lord Riddell, finally by the company at large after suitable replenishments. But when Lord Derby had drunk ceremoniously and passed the cup, Teetotaler Dawes pursed his firm lips, brushed the Vintners' chalice against them for less than a second...
Wrote Sergeant Secrett, for 25 years personal servant of the late Field Marshal Earl Haig: "He had that little peculiarity about him-he hated parting with actual coin of the realm...
...Earl D. Church, who gave up a $50,000 per year insurance job to become Commissioner of Pensions...
...royal physicians inquired for a suitable winter residence in South Africa where the summer sun shines all winter; where Queen Mary's brother, Earl of Athlone is Governor-General; where guinea hens, bustards await the royal...
...Earl Carroll's Sketch Book. Early in this gaudy cycle there occurs a sound cinema of Comedian Eddie Cantor, who wrote the libretto, singing a song of his own devising called "Legs, Legs, Legs." Thereafter a large and lovely group of girls attired in summery yellow dresses crowd out upon the stage, lie on their backs on an imitation grass terrace, raise their legs high in the air and wave them slowly to & fro. This revel sets the pitch for the rest of the entertainment, which fulfills every standard-anatomical, luxurious, careless-that is associated with Producer Carroll. There...