Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huts and elephants wallowing in water. As a result of all the confusion ("I can't believe," cried Burgomaster Francois van Kinschot, "that the British ambassador would make such fun of me!"), British authorities had the very devil of a time convincing the citizens of Leiden that the Earl of Bessborough, chairman of the organizing committee, was really an earl and that visiting Lecturer Sir Charles Darwin was indeed the genuine grandson of a famed, genuine biologist...
Among the masterpieces of the era is the portrait by Ralph Earl*of Connecticut's Roger Sherman (opposite), once a shoemaker, later a lawyer, and the only founding father to sign four historic documents of American independence: the Association of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution. Earl sat the awkward, clearheaded patriot in a Windsor chair as foursquare and unyielding as himself, threw a harsh, searching light on the stubby workingman's hands, which seem to regret having nothing to do, on the brow square-cut as a headstone, on the weary, wise...
...hero, shiftless, sodden Painter Earl worked for the British until the patriots began to win, then deserted his wife and two children and fled to England, where he subsequently deserted another wife and more children to return to America and drink himself to death...
Straight Battle. Coke is still constantly cited by lawyers and judges on both sides of the Atlantic, e.g., in Chief Justice Earl Warren's majority opinion on the Watkins case (TIME, July i). The complexities and oddities of Coke's Commentary upon Littleton helped make a lawyer of Patrick Henry in six weeks, drove Daniel Webster to "despair," and got from Thomas Jefferson the tribute of being the law's "universal elementary book...
...Coke climbed fast-recorder of Norwich, M.P. for Aldeburgh, solicitor general and recorder of London, Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1594 Elizabeth raised him to be Her Majesty's Attorney General. In this post Coke's success was so great (he prosecuted both the traitorous Earl of Essex and the wretched Guy Fawkes) that James I made him Chief Justice of the Common Pleas-and overnight Coke became another...