Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of an English bachelor with a past. The past is about to become all there is of his bachelorhood. He is marrying a U. S. heiress on the morrow. Only he does not know she is an heiress and she does not know he is an earl. Neither does she know about a married woman in London and the daughter of the local innkeeper. Both these importunate females arrive on the scene in time to break the engagement late in the second act. There follows a crazy dream, expressionistic in interpretation, in which the fiancée glides around...
Died. John Denton Pinkstone French, Earl of Ypres, 72, commander of the first British expeditionary force during the World War; in Deal, England, after an operation for appendicitis (see COMMONWEALTH...
...Boylston A Beal, with her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Beal; Mrs. Frederick A. Sterling, Mrs. Jerome O. Hunsaker, Mrs. Kenyon A. Joyce, Mrs. Earl J. Atkisson, Mrs. Stewart O. Elting and Mrs. Howard C. Davidson...
...Douglas Haig, returned to England, assumed command of the vast armies stationed in Britain. He was made a viscount, chose the name of Ypres, accepted the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland and held that position until 1921, when he retired from official life, receiving from the King the title of Earl...
...there was one that the knowing jostlers chiefly desired to ogle-Quatrain, winner of the New Orleans Handicap and the Louisiana Derby, favored in the odds at 2 to 1. He was liked, not because he had been personally trained by his owner, Frederick Johnson, Manhattan turfman, but because Earl Sande, famed jockey, winner of the 1923 Derby on Zev, had offered Jockey Bruening $2,000 and 10% of the winnings for the privilege of riding him, and Bruening had refused. A. A. Kaiser's Captain Hal, who had turned in the best trial times, and Kentucky Cardinal, also...