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Word: earls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Gillenwater, who used to spend his time in drawing rooms, now is seen only as the heroic pilot of a Wellington or skipper of the Marlborough. The metamorphosis of Noel Coward left a big pair of shoes unfilled until Clive Brook stepped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 4/24/1945 | See Source »

Unwedding Announcement. In Bloomington, Ind., County Clerk Earl Baxter grew tired of $300 alimony gathering dust in his safe, advertised for the divorcee to come and pick it up. She came promptly, explained, "I didn't know I'd been divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Died. Princess Elizabeth Bibesco,* 48, acid-penned, socialite British author (Portrait of Caroline), daughter of the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith (Herbert H. Asquith, Prime Minister 1908-1916), wife of Prince Antoine Bibesco, onetime Rumanian Minister to the U.S. (1920-1926), who nearly got called home when she "intervened" in U.S. politics by urging the 1924 election of Presidential Nominee John W. Davis; in Bucharest, Rumania, while listening to a news broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...Justus Mayer's 20-year-old comedy about Benvenuto Cellini, The Firebrand. Though the music itself proves an asset, it has to consort with a yarn that time has made paunchy and libretto-writing made puerile. The brawling mankiller, the dashing lady-killer, the impudent, artistic scapegallows Benvenuto (Earl Wrightson) becomes just another musicomedy swashbuckler; the plot and gags are such spinach that the whole thing turns out to be a musical poached eggs Florentine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Apr. 2, 1945 | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Died. David Lloyd George, Earl of Dwyfor, 82, Britain's Prime Minister during World War I, last surviving member of the first Big Three (the others: Wood-row Wilson and France's Clemenceau); of complications following influenza; in Llan-ystumdwy, Wales. Through five reigns and three wars, the fiery, witty, flamboyant Welshman enlivened the House of Commons. A combination of zeal, oratory and energy pushed him, step by step, to leadership of the Liberal Party, the British Government, and finally the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1945 | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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