Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against this latest encroachment the Conservative Lords were arrayed in depth. Up rose another Cecil-slim Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of Salisbury, one of England's ablest peers.* The history and traditions of twelve Salisbury generations were behind him. The first earl had been a trusted minister of Queen Elizabeth. The third marquess had been one of Victoria's prime ministers. Now long-nosed "Bobbety" Cecil was demanding that the Labor government withdraw its bill...
...Commie Leader Earl Browder...
...Ramdas set fire to the ghi-soaked wood with the charcoal he had carried, smoldering, all the way from Birla House. Nehru, Patel, Governor General Earl Mountbatten and his Lady threw last rose petals on the pyre as the white smoke of sweet-smelling sandalwood rose against the scarlet evening sun. From nearly a million throats came the chant, half in mourning, half in triumph: "Mahatma Gandhi amar ho gae!"-"Mahatma Gandhi has become immortal...
...this time Earl was sure he had it in the bag. He even demanded that Jones withdraw. "It's a sin and a shame," he croaked, "to waste $600,000 of old-age pension money on a second primary. . . . The people have spoken. Jones will never win this time...
...your mother." In Manhattan, Cinemactress Arline Judge, whose fifth husband, Bob Topping, succeeded Talbot as Lana's friend, wasn't holding still for a divorce. "It'll take me a long time to ruin this one," she raged to the New York Post's Earl Wilson, "but. . . I swear on my baby's head, I'll ruin him for what...