Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Powers, 65, of Macon, Ga., put her young men would have done credit to a medieval witch. A widow, she took in boarders. She advertised for a "willing young man" to help with the chores, drive her car. Six weeks ago one James Parks, 25, and one Earl Manchester 21, answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity clause in case he died by accident. Then she worked on young Manchester to take her gun and kill...
...town and country folk. Some had traveled 70 miles down from London; most had trudged from nearer homes in the West Sussex country which spreads its downs and rivers below high Castle Hill. All had come to be birthday guests of Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal & Chief Butler of England, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan. Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, scion of one of England's oldest families-who was to be 21, and a man, next day. From all the corners...
...almost forgotten with 70 million dollars wagered on the race; with Cragadour, the favorite, sick of a stomach trouble and daily bulletins being issued on the state of his health; with the sudden scratching of the second favorite, Midlothian, because of the death of his owner, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, last of the Great Victorians and the man who succeeded Gladstone as Prime Minister...
Among the black-and-white Dominicans and black Benedictines who attended the ceremony, sat Mlle. Chantel de la Flech%#232;re, who claims collateral kinship with La Pucelle. Absent was the present Earl of Warwick, 18-year-old Charles Guy Fulke Greville...
Died. Archibald Philip Primrose, Fifth Earl of Rosebery, 82, of Durdans, Epsom, England; at Durdans. His 17-year-old boasts were: he would marry an heiress, win the Derby, become Prime Minister of England. He accomplished all three: married Hannah, eldest daughter of late great Baron Meyer de Rothschild; won the Derby thrice; was Liberal Prime Minister...