Word: trafalgar
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...grateful nation, which thought Emma Hamilton's rank little better than a whore's, took him at his word. To a respectable brother, the Rev. William Nelson, went an earldom, a 3,000-acre estate, Trafalgar, in Wiltshire and a pension of ?5,000 yearly to be paid to his heirs forever. To Emma went nothing; she died ten years later, a raddled and penniless old woman, in France...
...perpetual" pension. The amiable, doddering, 88-year-old fourth Earl or his 85-year-old brother Edward will continue to collect while they live. To keep the next heir, Edward's 55-year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort of the Nelson family motto: "Let him wear the palm who has deserved...
...pair of worn boots into Hoby's Bootshop in London's West End on Friday, asked for repairs by "next Tuesday . . . I'll be needing them in Germany." Hoby's-recalling that Wellington wore his Hoby boots at Waterloo, that Nelson died in his at Trafalgar-broke its two-to-three-weeks-for-repairs rule, promised delivery...
Thus did some Britons read, when these events occurred, the news of: 1) the American Revolution; 2) the projected Napoleonic invasion of England; 3) the Battle of Trafalgar; 4) the Battle of Waterloo. Their paper was Berrow's Worcester Journal, founded in 1690, now the oldest surviving English-language newspaper in the world...
Over the teacups at Canada House, off London's Trafalgar Square, William Lyon Mackenzie King last week told 14 Canadian correspondents that he was happy about his trip to the Empire Conference, about the outcome, about everything...