Word: vii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Criminal Investigation Bureau of Scotland Yard (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925), secondly Sir Arthur Evans, famed archeologist, discoverer of buried civilizations in Crete, and most reprehensively of all Sir Almeric Fitzroy, onetime Clerk of His Majesty's Privy Council and intimate of that late & lusty monarch Edward VII...
...Evans, 5, 30, Conf. group IV Memorial Hall Mr. Gideonse, 7 Sever 13 Mr. Gideonse, 37 Sever 14 Mr. Gideonse, Conf. group V Sever 17 Mr. Gratwick, 4, 15, 25 Harvard 5 Mr. Jordan, 12, 17, Conf. group VI New Lect. Hall Mr. McDonald, 9, 28, Conf. group VII Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Scramuzza, 8, 18, Conf. group VIII New Lect. Hall Dr. Taylor, 6, Conf. group IX Geol. Lect. Rm. History 3b Sever 35 History 24b Emerson A Italian 2 Sever 6 Latin 8 Sever 18 Mathematics A I Sever 24 Mathematics 2 II Harvard 2, 3 Mathematics...
Gossips remember that the Earl of Athlone subsisted for years as a "poor relation" of British Royalty. Edward VII disliked him and was niggardly about allowing him to live rent-free in a mean suite of rooms at Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...
Divorce Suit Rumored. Emily Charlotte (Lillie) Langtry, Lady De Bathe, 75, stage beauty of a generation ago; and her husband, Sir Hugo Gerald De Bathe, 56, of Monte Carlo. The "Jersey Lily," friend of King Edward VII and many another famed Victorian, emerged from a decade of retirement last year (TIME, Feb. 7, 1927) to deny charges of intimacy with Premier Gladstone, made by Author Peter Wright...
...Oslo by 75-year-old Robert Underwood Johnson, onetime editor of the Century Magazine, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy (1920-21). He bore illuminated parchment scrolls of greeting from various literary societies and hobnobbed with 98 other delegates from 19 countries. All were bounteously entertained by King Haakon VII of Norway...