Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Emma had her revenge. After 140 years and ?700,000 of payments, His Majesty's Government announced a plan to terminate its last "perpetual" pension. The amiable, doddering, 88-year-old fourth Earl or his 85-year-old brother Edward will continue to collect while they live. To keep the next heir, Edward's 55-year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort...
...hide from German bombs had classical company. Workmen last week began removing some $16,000,000 worth of ancient heroes & heroines from an offshoot of the Underground station. The ancients were the British Museum's famed Elgin Marbles, plucked from the Parthenon (in 1801) by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin...
...Earl Wesly Rubens...
John O'Hara, best selling literary specialist in big-city barflies, heels and floozies, got a thorough quoting-over from New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him at a bar. O'Hara by Wilson: "If I write any extended work, I gotta goddam well get offa the booze. . . . Well, I'm going to level with you about Pal Joey. You are a guy that's got to be on the eerie, and you heard I wrote it while I was on the sauce. I didn't. I was sober ... I started...
...June 1940 that soldierly Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone (known to his older sister, Queen Mary, as "Algie") and his small, handsome wife, Princess Alice (granddaughter of Queen Victoria) took up residence in Government House. For five wartime years the Governor General and his Lady had quietly impressed themselves on Canadian life, performing viceregal duties with impeccable style and unfailing good manners...