Word: garter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair program picture out of it in its present form. The trouble is that the plot has been padded with pointless routine fooling and the old songs replaced with poorer though newer ones, badly sung. It still, however, contains that fine scene in which two partners in a tottering garter business draw a poker hand to decide which shall serve as the other's butler for a year...
...house was in abeyance), sailed from Yokohama last week on a globe circling honeymoon. In London H. I. H. will repay the visit to Japan of H. R. H. Prince Henry (TIME, May 13), and in Madrid grave, bespectacled Prince Takamatsu will pin the gorgeous Order of the Chrysanthemum ("Garter of Japan'') on sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...least this great achievement of Arthur James Balfour, Knight of the Garter, Earl of Balfour, Viscount Traprain of Wittingehame, will long live after him. It is by far the most important document affecting the Near East. And very typical of the career of the Earl of Balfour, is the fact that he died in the estimation of Jews their greatest friend. He also died esteemed and mourned by most U. S. citizens, yet he did more to loose the storm of European hatred against "Uncle Shylock" than any other...
...League of Nations; 1921-22, Chief of the British Delegation to the Washington Conference, at which he fell in with Charles Evans Hughes' aspirations for disarmament, diverted the U. S. from any possibility of constructing a greater navy than Britannia's, and went home to receive the Garter and his Earldom...
...Incorporated by Richard III, their titles are: Earl Marshal, Deputy Earl Marshal, Garter Principal King of Arms, Clarenceux King of Arms South of Trent, Norroy King of Arms of North of Trent, the heralds Richmond, Windsor, Lancaster, York, Somerset and Chester, the pursuivants Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, Portcullis and Rouge Dragon...