Word: earls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gardens of that little Eden at Blandings or to guffaw as the omniscient Jeeves pulled addlepated Bertie Wooster out of the clutches of his Aunt Agatha or the local constabulary. Wodehouse addicts had their own favorite characters. The author himself confessed he bent toward Lord Emsworth, the daffy ninth Earl of Blandings, who spent most of his time escaping through the hedges from his domineering sister Constance or making sure that his beloved pig, the Empress of Blandings, won first prize at the local fair. Others, perhaps a majority, preferred the stories about Jeeves, who, with a "voice as dignified...
...example of how the commission did work when ostensibly investigating, we have the interrogation of Jack Ruby. Earl Warren and then-Congressman Gerald R. Ford went to the Dallas jail in which Ruby was imprisoned after shooting Oswald and asked whether he had any information to impart to the commission. Ruby replied that he had a great deal to say, but that he would only testify in Washington, afraid that if he talked while in the very jail in which he killed Oswald, his own life would he in danger. After refusing to transport Ruby to Washington, despite the fact...
...interim successor, Earl Seidman, announced his own resignation after less than two weeks on the job. Gluckstern said Seidman's resignation was "not unrelated" to Allen's. Louis Fischer, a professor of education, was nominated yesterday by a six-member council of the education faculty to serve as acting dean for the remainder of the academic year...
Died. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 66; in his sleep; on his estate in Sussex, England. As Earl Marshal of England, the duke choreographed royal weddings and funerals with such clockwork precision that he complained that Winston Churchill's state funeral was "two minutes late." Asked once by a newsman how he felt about work, the duke replied, "It has never appealed...
Fromm Foundation Concert; Intonation before Sotoba Komachi by Donald Sur, Pianissimo by Donald Martino, and "Eh Joe" (a musical version of a Beckett television play) by Earl Kim; Sanders...