Word: earls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that day was the news that Philip had managed to turn over in his car on a skiddy corner on the road from Chippenham. He escaped with only a twisted knee. Soon afterward the Palace announced that the couple will divide their honeymoon between Birkhall, near Balmoral Castle, and Earl Mountbatten's Hampshire estate, Broadlands...
Repartee. In Kansas City, Kans., a local citizen named Gunn pleaded innocent to a charge of drunkenness, declared: "I wasn't loaded, your honor." Judge J. Earl Thomas happily announced: "Gunn discharged...
These words, of course, had a good deal of Stalin's "wooden iron" in them. That Communist parties in various countries have been quite effectively connected was proved when French Communist Jacques Duclos fired U.S. Communist Earl Browder by writing an unfriendly article about him in Cahiers du Communisme. The meeting in Poland seemed to have decided that the mostly clandestine connection between Communist parties was not close enough. Mistakes had been made. Italian and Yugoslav Communist parties had differed over the Trieste issue. Worse, the parties in France and Italy, fat with postwar recruits, showed a certain sluggishness...
...daughter of Leopold, Duke of Albany and brother of Edward VII, Princess Alice is Elizabeth's first cousin twice removed;, as wife of the Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary, she is also Elizabeth's great-aunt...
Died. Thomas Horatio Nelson, fourth Earl Nelson, 89, great-great-nephew of the hero of Trafalgar; in Salisbury, England. In 1806 a grateful Parliament voted the Nelson family a ?5,000 annuity; in 1946 the Labor Government decided that the nation's debt had been paid: the annuity will stop with the death of Thomas' brother, Edward Agar Horatio...