Word: fife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classical scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently got a " first " in Litterae Humaniores (1874). After that he went in for the Law, joined Lincoln's Inn in 1876 and "took silk " in 1890. His political career started four years earlier. In 1886 he became M. P. for East Fife, a constituency he represented continuously until the general election of 1918, when he was defeated. For two years Mr. Asquith remained out of the House and then came back on a bye-election in Paisley. The principal Cabinet posts he has held: Secretary of State for Home Affairs under Gladstone...
...Earl was best man at the wedding of the Duke of Fife and the Princess Royal, King George's eldest sister; consequently he made their two daughters, Princess Arthur of Connaught* and Princess Maud his principal legatees...
Engaged. Princess Maud Alexandra Victoria Georgia Bertha, 30, daughter of the Princess Royal and the late Duke of Fife, a niece of King George V, to Captain Lord Charles Alexander Carnegie, 29, eldest son of the Earl of Southesk. King George has given his requisite consent to the marriage...
...appointed sub-chairman of the photographic department of the 1925 Red Book, and the following men were appointed to the board: John Denison Baldwin, of Worcester; Willis Paine Beal, of Boston; Joseph Kinney Collins, of Dorchester; James Davenport Jr., of Fall River; Andrew Clarke Gunby, of Sherman, Texas; Charles Fife Living stone, of Long Island, N. Y.; Otis Radcliffe Rice, of Springfield; Eric Sandquist, of Concord, N. H.; John, Edwin Toulmin, of Boston; Luther Herbert Wood, of Greenfield...
...been leader of the Band since its organization in 1919, will continue to conduct this year. He is away at present, however, and his place as drum major will be taken today by A. S. Simmons '24. When Mr. Reynolds returns he will organize a drum, fife and bugle corps, which will be featured at the later football games. Announcements will be made in the near future as to further trials, including tryouts for drummers, fifers and buglers...