Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Ashburnham came into possession of the Bible in 1814. It was later sold to Robert Hoe of New York and Peter A. B. Widener, Sr., of Philadelphia bought...
When Dartmouth College lured Earl Brown, former basketball coach and assistant football coach at Harvard, up to Hanover, they thought that they had obtained the man behind Crimson athletics. Actually, however, they might have come closer to their goal if they had gone after our versatile Floyd Stahl, who is, among other things, coach of the Varsity baseball team...
...Earl Warren's name had not been among those originally suggested for keynoter. Reason: he was considered a sure bet for second place on a ticket with Tom Dewey, and the keynote spot is usually reserved for a noncandidate. But by the time the G.O.P. Committee on Arrangements met in Chicago's Stevens Hotel, the way had been cleared for the Westerner...
Proposed by his own committeeman, Earl Warren got early support from Texas' redhaired Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, the South's most potent Republican. Chairman Spangler seconded the motion. Representatives of the Dewey and Bricker camps nodded agreement. In the face of such agreement at the top, all other candidacies collapsed. Earl Warren was chosen unanimously...
...April 5, 1943; Sir Richard Burton's Wife, TIME, June 23, 1941), has written a lucid, witty biography of the most successful, most enigmatic of these 19th-Century mediums. Daniel Dunglass Home was born in a small Highland village. His father was the illegitimate son of the tenth Earl of Home. His mother specialized in prognosticating the deaths of her best friends. In 1840 the Home family emigrated to the U.S., leaving Daniel in the care of his aunt, Mary Cook. When he was nine, Daniel and Mrs. Cook went to the U.S. too, settled at Greenville, Conn...