Word: kimberley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Against 495 Conservative and 89 Liberal Peers ten Socialists plus Sidney Webb now sit in the Lords: Earls Russell De La Warr and Kimberley; Lords Parmoor Thomson, Olivier, Arnold, Sankey, Gorell, Muir-Mackenzie. Four are hereditary peers; the other seven rose from commoners. Five have heirs to succeed to their titles...
Following a map drawn by the late Admiral George Dewey, the S. S. Maryland fetched up and hove to off Cape San Lucas, lower California. Two launches were lowered for a late-afternoon fishing expedition. Captain Victor A. Kimberley, the Maryland's commander, put off in a third boat to act as a patrol against unimaginable dangers from the desolate Mexican shore. In his hands rested the safety of his country's President-elect...
...dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night. The clouds broke and the Southern Cross shone through. Soon after sunrise, Mrs. Hoover joined him and Capt. Kimberley on the bridge to admire the ship's handling, the towering seas...
Married. Miss Kathleen McKane, unquestionably Britain's foremost woman tennis player, to L. A. Godfree, noted British Davis Cup star; at Kimberley, while touring South Africa with a British tennis team of which Mr. Godfree is captain...