Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pipe-smoking Earl of Halifax has overrated Cigar Consumer Winston Churchill [TIME, May 21]. Winnie may be the British Empire's No. 1 cigar smoker, but he cannot smoke 54 extra-large, especially made cigars in 18 hours out of every 24. It takes most cigar smokers approximately 30 minutes to smoke enjoyably a normal-sized, popular-brand cigar...
...Communist parties outside of Russia were in a dither which dampened collaborationist hopes. Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist party, belabored Earl Browder for plumping for collaboration with capitalist democracy. This week the U.S. Communists' National Board abjectly confessed its "opportunist errors," abandoned the "illusion" that wartime collaboration could be continued...
...Both scorn Earl Browder, but take a for giving attitude towards what the Nation calls the Soviet's "bad behavior" to small neighbors.) This line finally got to be too much for earnest, beetle-eyed Louis Fischer, once violently pro-Russian. Last week, after 22 years on the Nation staff and 12 years (1924-36) as its ecstatic Moscow correspondent, Fischer quit. Said he: "There were years when you rose up to smite any power that wronged the weak, when your words rang out against . . . the suppression of small, weak states by mighty neighbors. . . . The Nation...
Woody went straight to West Point's football coach, Lieut. Colonel Earl Blaik, and found a sympathetic ear. After boning, he passed his qualifying exams with 100 in math. Colonel Blaik found a Georgia Congressman who was willing to swap Woody's Congressman a current vacancy for one the following year. By this time it was the eve of Woody's 22nd birthday, when he would become too old for West Point entry. There was still no official notice of his appointment. Gambling on the chance that it had been sent direct to West Point, Woody...
Richard Lloyd George, Earl of Dwy-for, bemoaned the fact that he had inherited a title but no money from his father, the late David Lloyd George. "[Father] wasn't himself, or he never would have taken the title. . . . Suppose the Welsh National Hospital asks for a contribution. The donor's list will say, 'Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor gave two and six [50?].' That would look very good...