Word: trent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British schoolboy about Burton-on-Trent and loudly will he answer, "That's where the ale comes from." Ask him what ale and he will cry, "Bass's Ale!" Almost as familiar as the Prince of Wales' three feathers is the pale red triangle of Bass's Pale Ale and Stout, sign manual of the firm of Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton who have brewed the potent, acrid, yellowish brew?which Britons drink in preference to beer?ever since Washington wintered at Valley Forge...
Last week royal favor descended once more upon the potent brewers of Burton-on-Trent when Edward of Wales flew down from London, visited the brewhouse, mixed for himself a special vat of extra strong mash to be known as ''Prince's Brew." Waiting at the flying field to greet him was the Chairman of the Company, Colonel the Right Honorable John Gret-ton. Conservative M. P. for the Burton Division of Staffordshire. Waving proudly over the old brewery was a great banner lettered GOOD HEALTH TO OUR PRINCE. Edward of Wales attended a special luncheon after which he sampled...
...Trent's last Case", the RCA photophone, is as good a picture as has been shown in this house this season. Raymond Griffith solves the crime in entertaining and amusing, if not mystifying manner. And Marceline Day is the heroine,--if that means anything to anyone...
...opposition to the leading principles of modern civilization. It was not enough. Pius IX called an Ecumenical Council for 1870 to provide "an adequate remedy to the disorders intellectual and moral of Christendom." There had been only 19 Councils before, the last previous one being the Council of Trent...
Emanuel Madruzzo, "Cardinal and Archbishop of Trent and Secular Prince of the Trentino" had "a suite of 500 gentlemen splendidly attired in rich and bizarre liveries" and "squandered his wealth, since in him the race [of Madruzzo] would be extinguished and the principality left without an heir...