Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, from the age of Cleopatra's father, Ptolemy Auletes, down to that of Communist Earl Browder (who used to flute away his time in Leavenworth Prison), many men have been unable to leave the instrument alone. The flute has claimed, among others, Frederick the Great, Henry VIII, George III, George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Benvenuto Cellini, and composer Hector Berlioz. U.S. Composer Stephen Foster could not play anything else. Charles G. Dawes and George Bernard Shaw are both amateurs...
...Some anonymous buildings, suggesting another paragraph by Poet MacNeice: "And it is heartbreaking, too, to walk through parts of the East End which may not lately have been bombed but which were more or less evacuated under an earl ier terror and left to the rats and the damp -the petrification of the memory of poverty. Street after street of empty stinking homes which will never-or so we hope-be anybody's homes any more...
...football, a game he could not understand, Cas starred for three years at Steubenville High School. Scholarships were waiting for Columbia and Ohio State. But to please his father, who had heard and dreamed about West Point in grammar school in Stawiski, Poland, Cas wrote to Army Coach Earl Blaik about his ambition to go to West Point. He mentioned his football. Army's trainer went out to Steubenville to have a look...
...leading department store, Lewis ran away from home to join Dr. Cooper's Herb Medicine Show as clarinet soloist. Later he led a parade of bloodhounds with the Gentry Brothers Dog and Pony Show. In 1917 he got a Manhattan job at Rector's with Earl Fuller's band...
...kept tradition intact last week. Out went Mayor David Abbott ("Honest Ab") Jenkins, 60, famed as the nation's fastest driver, who had ridden triumphantly into office in his speed-bug, but had promptly smashed up in quarrels with the city commissioners. In as mayor went polished, polite Earl Glade, 58, vice president of Salt Lake's influential radio station KSL. Explained defeated Mayor Ab Jenkins, whose speed records were amassed in solo flights across the Utah salt flats: "I'm not used to running a race against someone else...