Word: northumberlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FAIL Morpeth, Northumberland England...
...hallowed appurtenances of British nobility. Last week a fine old Family Curse made a fine news story. Twenty-year-old Viscount Lambton, son and heir of the 5th Earl of Durham, lay dead by "suicide while of unsound mind," according to a coroner's jury. The folk of Northumberland knew that the Curse of the Worm had struck again...
...Duke of Northumberland...
...Over hoary Alnwick Castle on the once embattled Scottish border, a blue and gold ducal standard flew at half-mast announcing that Henry George Alan Percy, Duke of Northumberland, Earl Percy, officer in the Grenadier Guards, had been killed in action. Head of the famous fighting Percy clan, which has battled in & out of England for over 800 years, the 27-year-old Duke died trying to stem the Nazi advance through Flanders. His brother and successor, Lord Hugh Algernon, is in active service with the Northumberland Hussars...
...lieutenant in the Welsh Guards, seven-goal British polo star; in action in Flanders. Jacques and Jean Denain, aviator sons of former Air Minister French General Victor Leon Ernest Denain; shot down returning from air raids over Germany. Sir Henry George Alan Percy, 27, Ninth Duke of Northumberland, England's largest coal owner (1939 income: $345,000); in France...