Word: northumberlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procession of the Lord was marching through Sheffield, England. At its head was a brass band blaring hymns from atop a wagon; next, on a white horse, came the onetime champion wrestler of Northumberland, now a convert to God. After him in a carriage rode the Generals William and Catherine Booth, and behind marched the uniformed soldiers of their Salvation Army. Then the Devil attacked...
...Northumberland Baptist Association canvassed the hills and valleys of central Pennsylvania by stagecoach, canal boat and horseback, looking for money to start a new school. That fall, with donations given by thrifty churchmen ranging from 25? to $25,000,* the school that was to become Bucknell University held its first classes-22 students meeting with two professors in the Baptist Church basement in quiet Lewisburg...
...1760s, Sir Hugh Smithson, Duke of Northumberland, took up with Elizabeth Keate Macie, reputed descendant of Henry VII. One result: a son, James Smithson, who became a leading chemist, but because of the bar sinister never a duke. Wrote he: "On my father's side I am a Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten...
Last week I had two good views of the Royal Family without the aid of field glasses. The first was at the Duke of Northumberland's wedding in Westminster Abbey. The second was at the Tate Gallery (TIME, June 24), where I spent the better part of an hour and a half cutting around corners to intercept the royal entourage in their meanderings...
Married. Hugh Algernon Percy, 32, tenth Duke of Northumberland, lineal descendant of Shakespeare's Harry Hotspur and of Charles II; and Lady Elizabeth Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 24, daughter of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch, whose Scottish ancestors feuded with the English Percys for four centuries; both for the first time; in Westminster Abbey, London, with the Royal Family present. The duke crossed the border on a black charger to court his bride in true Percy style...