Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble is that industry frequently waits until it is in trouble before worrying about its reputation. Said Public Relations Man Earl Newsom, who numbers Ford, Jersey Standard and American Locomotive among his clients: "Businessmen are so preoccupied with the notion of making and selling things that they often fail to recognize developing public-relations problems until it is too late...
...finger!' " Unfortunately, he "covered his [Crimean] staff with confusion by forgetting that the French were ... his allies and invariably talking of 'the French' when he meant 'the enemy.' " It was Lord Raglan who ordered the Charge of the Light Brigade. ¶George Bingham, third Earl of Lucan. C. 0. of the cavalry division of which the Light Brigade was a part, who received and passed on Lord Raglan's order, had paid ?25,000 to become colonel of the crack Lancers. He had spent half his life pouring money into his Lancers, whose superbly...
...Karl Earl Mundt, 53, acting committee chairman, South Dakota's senior Senator, once before was an acting chairman during a dramatic episode: in 1948, when the pumpkin film in the Alger Hiss case was disclosed, he was head of the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator-elect, having won his promotion with the help of the Hiss case. Mundt. who was a teacher for 13 years, has a schoolteacher's patient manner. Now, torn between his allegiance to the Administration and his friendship for McCarthy, Karl Mundt obviously needs all his patience. In his opening remarks last...
...thane this time. Scatterbrained Bertie Wooster, for once apprehensive about the economic future of the British upper classes, has packed himself off to a home-economics school to learn all about cooking, sock-mending and polishing his own boots. Jeeves is on internal lend-lease to William, ninth Earl of Towcester, an amiable chap with "a marked shortage of the little gray cells ... It was generally agreed that whoever won the next Nobel Prize, it would not be Bill Towcester...
...dark lady was a married woman who broke her bed vow (Sormet 152), but Mary Fitton was single when she was William Herbert's [later the Earl of Pembroke-1580-1630] mistress ... He refused to wed her . . . After bearing three illegitimate children to three different men, she married rich and died respectable. But-alas for the supporters of the Fitton-Herbert theory-Mary inconveniently turns out, from the evidence of her portraits, to have been not dark but fair, with light brown hair and gray eyes. For hair, Shakespeare's dark lady had "black wires"; for eyes, "pitch...