Word: sunderland
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...Councilors of Sunderland, England, voted to withdraw a resolution they passed 15 years ago conferring the freedom of the city on Admiral of the British Fleet Earl Beatty. Reason: Because Earl Beatty of the North Sea had not once visited Sunderland to receive its freedom, he no longer deserved...
...Duchess, born Gladys Marie Deacon in Boston, made no reply. By last week she was used to the peculiar ways of the Duke, fretful Charles Richard John ("Sunny" for Sunderland) Spencer-Churchill, 61, 9th of his line...
...make an after-dinner speech at a banquet of the United Ancient Order of Druids (British social order) one sweltering London night up rose walrus-mustached, bespectacled Charles Richard John ("Sunny") Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (Baron Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and divorced husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt). He had noticed, remarked His Grace, that his confreres were squirming in black coats, swabbing their necks under hard collars. That was regrettable. He had better sense. To the consternation of every Druid, the Duke had come...
...over the lamp. He started a shop in the Loop, hired as general manager a smart Jew (Gregory Ratoff) who climbed across the sock counter out of the crowd at a sale. The shop grew into a huge department store called the Bazaar. Daniel Pardway's wife (Nan Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb esthete; the daughter married and divorced a Prince, adopted a swami; the youngest son seduced a countergirl, grew...
John Wells Norcross 2M, of Boston; Kenneth Barrie Olson 4M, of Seattle, Washington; Charles Rupp, Jr. 4M, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Carlton Remsberg Souders 4M, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Douglas Aykroyd Sunderland 2M, of Glenside, Pennsylvania; William Graham Thompson 4M, of Andover; William Louis Wallbank 2M, of New Britain, Connecticut; Henry Stanley Warren 2M, of Melrose Highlands; Meyer Richard Whitehill 3M, of Norfolk, Virginia; Robert Wallace Wilkins 4M, of Greensboro, North Carolina; Robert Ory Wilson 4M, of Pleasant Valley, Connecticut; Hays Richman Yandell 4M, of San Antonio, Texas...