Word: verulam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...numerous fruitless battles with the Soviet forces, between Dec. 18, 1918, and Aug. 19, 1919, the British lost twelve other ships: the light cruiser Cassandra, the mine carriers Victoria, Verulam, Gentian and Myrtle, and seven torpedo cutters...
...play is The Making of an Immortal. Edward of Wales attended its premiere last week. He seemed diverted by a drama which unfolds upon the stage the theory that that erudite Elizabethan, Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), was the real author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling...
Young Mr. A. G. Havers who led Hagen, Smith, Kirkwood by the nose at Troon last June for the British open golf championship, has proved himself no flash in the pan. Shortly after, at Gleneagles, he led another brilliant field. Last week, at St. Albans, Verulam, Havers won the ?450 stake with 75-67-142. The previous course record, held by Braid...