Word: earls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...daughter, Leonora Margaret Brooke (known to the press as Princess Gold), made a noble alliance when she married the late Earl of Inchcape, a P. & O. shipping tycoon. But Elizabeth Brooke (Princess Pearl) married a jazz-band leader, Harry Roy. Nancy Valerie Brooke (Princess Baba) married and divorced a professional wrestler, Bob Gregory. To make matters worse, Sir Charles's wife, the Ranee, a daughter of the late Viscount Esher, published her autobiography, Relations and Complications, indiscreetly revealing the details of Sir Charles's courtship, their marital relations. The Ranee, now in Manhattan, cut off from her British...
...trumpeter who had aerophobia (fear of high places); Mr. Joy had to hire the trumpeter's wife to soothe him in a 23rd-floor studio. Between these diplomatic feats, Leonard Joy picks names for pieces by inarticulate musicians (sample: Child of a Disordered Brain for an Earl Hines piano number) and looks for sellers. To make two versions of Star-Dust by Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw-was his idea; each has lately gone over 100,000 copies. Other records of the month...
With his face hidden behind a mask made of a ripped Pullman pillowcase (to thwart photographers), Earl Browder stepped off a train last week at Atlanta, Ga. He was shackled to two Negro prisoners, escorted by G-Men. His destination: the U. S. Penitentiary at Atlanta. The Kansas-born Communist leader and onetime Presidential candidate was going to prison for passport fraud. Sentence: four years. By good behavior he could get out in three years, four months...
...past eleven years Earl Browder had been general secretary (titular head) of the Communist Party in the U. S. Picked by the Party hierarchy to fill his uncomfortable shoes was another native-born U. S. citizen, an old-fashioned radical, 56-year-old Robert Minor. A Texan, a carpenter in his early days, Communist Minor has had a long career of Bolshevik activity. As a young man he took up cartooning and landed a job on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1916 he became publicity director for the defense of Tom Mooney. When the U. S. entered World...
...Composer Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans), to finish a musical dramatization of Carl Sandburg's The People...