Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earldom upon the Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, Premier of Great Britain and Ireland from 1908 to 1915-the longest period of time that the office has been held by one man since the Ministry of Lord Liverpool (1812-1827). The new peer chose the historic title of Earl of Oxford*, and His Majesty's sanction for the revival of that title was obtained...
...heir to the earldom is Lord Oxford's grandson, Julian Asquith, only son of the earl's eldest son, Raymond Asquith (killed in France in 1915). This young man will now be known as the Hon. Julian Asquith...
...strange irony of fortune, however, that finds the Earl of Oxford a member of the House of Lords which he did so much to deprive of its effective powers...
...probable that they knew that their owner, Earl Spencer, had died; but even if they did, they could not have understood. Death, for those who derive their being from the paint of Master Artists, is a phenomenon hardly less comprehensible than change. Yet there was the fact, the Earl was dead and change was upon them. All this...
...royalties for this invention. So many consumers became converts to the soft collar that existing makers of hard collars began to feel the competition seriously, began to make soft collars themselves, in alleged violation of the Van Heusen patents. Chief among these were Cluett, Peabody & Co., Earl & Wilson, Manhattan Shirt Co., Hall Hartwell Co., George P. Ide Co., Vanzandt, Inc. and Lion Shirt...