Word: kent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ashford, Kent one day last week, sturdy British husbandmen stood glowering while an auctioneer put up nine cows for sale. For the cattle no one bid a farthing. Presently the farmers formed a procession, moved down a Kent road shouting, singing, bearing effigies of homely Queen Anne and handsome Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the procession donkeys bore such placards as: "Queen Anne's Dead!" "The Parsons' Feet Have Been Under Our Table Too Long," "The Tithe Is the Death Watch Beetle Of Agriculture," "Archbishop of Cant. Church on Sunday but Hands Off the Farmer!" Spectators...
...Bounty," an organization set up in that good lady's reign (1702-14) to support rural clergy. Of the thousands of husbandmen who in the past four years have rebelled against tithe-paying (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933), none have been more stubborn than the men of Kent. Last February a London Express man found scores of them locked & barred in their homes, ready to repel bailiffs...
...from Cat Cay, Bahamas) was sent after he had transferred from the Farragut to Vincent Astor's Nourmahal aboard which were all the President's old socialite fishing cronies. It stated that the Governor of the Bahamas, Sir Bede Clifford and his lady, and the Duke of Kent and his lady had formally called upon President Roosevelt aboard the Nourmahal...
...Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie; Sakajawea, Indian woman guide...
...Intense excitement at this point, because both took her to dinner the same night, the present Duke of Kent afterward taking his blonde cousin to see Marlene Dietrich in The Blonde Venus...