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...ranks in the peerage are graduated as follows: duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron. There are approximately 28 dukes, 42 marquises, 230 earls, 103 viscounts, 484 barons in the peerage at present, not including the 27 women who hold titles in their own right...
Other high spots of the London Surgical Congress were the opening session, addressed by the Prince of Wales and Marquis Curzon, and a report on nerve-grafting by Dr. Gosset, Paris specialist.
¶ In the House of Lords a debate was held on Lord Gorell's motion to have Britain join the U. S. in call-ing an international conference on air armament limitation. The debate was, however, interrupted by the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of the Council, who informed the...
¶ Viscount Haldane, ex-Secretary of State for War, and Viscount Grey, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, criticized the Government's project for a naval base at Singapore. Lord Haldane wanted to know the nation against which the Government felt bound to prepare defense.' The Marquis of Salisbury...
A kangaroo and a flea are much the same. They both jump. But a kangaroo has a certain nobility and a flea at times can be most annoying. It is the same with Art and Science. They both hop all over man and his world. But Art is conveniently flattering...