Word: philipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PHILIP P. WELLS...
Upon her return to Scotland, Mary and her counselors formed ambitious plans for marrying her to Don Carlos, son of morose Philip of Spain, or to the Archduke of Austria, or into the royal family of France. Scotland was the backdoor to England. Queen Elizabeth was determined Mary should make no "mighty marriage," was fertile in expedients, threats, cajolery. Her Scottish Protestant counselors urged her to a decision as to Mary's marriage: "Remember how earnestly she is sought otherwyse; you see the lustiness of her boddie, you know what these thynges require . . . Loss of her time is our destruction...
...Lampoon announced the election last night of Philip Boone '28 of Winchester, L. M. Priochard '28, of New Brighton, N. Y., and F. II. Cannon '28, of Boxbury to the literary board...
Archibald Philip Primrose is now in his 78th year. He was Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. He is the last surviving Earl to have held the Premiership before Britain's gradual democratization rendered that office practically reserved to commoners. He was the first Briton ever to own a horse which won the Derby while its owner was Prime Minister, an altitude of bliss which only British sovereigns who have tried to "win the Derby" and failed can fully appreciate. In 1878 the Times and many another British newspaper listed in slightly over two columns "the more notable wedding presents...
...Philip Guedalla recently prefaced a paper on Lord Rosebery with the cruel but "Primrosean" observation: "There are three kinds of statesmen, dead, living and elder...