Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Earl Lama, 49, is a nimble little man (116 Ibs.) of elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...
Then the Republicans really got to work. Governor Earl Warren, sure of re-election and silent so far in the campaign, found his voice. He took aim at Henry Wallace as "a spearhead" of an attack in California "by leftist organizations that are attuned to the Communist movement." Wallace, said the Governor, "is no more qualified to tell Californians how to vote than a man who has broken up his own home is qualified to tell his neighbors how they should regulate their family affairs...
...Earl of Halifax, who often talked of turning farmer after he was through being Ambassador to the U.S., was getting closer to the earth. The towering lord of Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire was moved by servant trouble and householder's headache to sell the hulking heap, plus a few of his many lordly acres, to an Anglican sisterhood (Order of the Holy Paraclete). The sisters planned to use it for a school building, and m'lord planned to move into the stable...
...Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, now a gaffer of 79, emerged briefly from latter-day obscurity when a news photographer snapped him at a Cambridge University ceremony. Only faintly discernible now were the once famed features of England's burly, pipe-smoking Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...Cuttyhunk's case: the island was discovered in 1602 by Englishman Bartholomew" Gosnold. Shakespeare wrote The Tempest in 1611. Both Shakespeare and Gosnold had the same patron: the Earl of Southampton. Cuttyhunkers insist that Shakespeare's account of the shipwreck isle tallied with Gosnold's description of Cuttyhunk. Most Shakespeare authorities think he wrote about Bermuda...