Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, Viscount Byng of Vimy, Admirals Beatty and Jellicoe, and, symbolically to the fore of the bier, clad in a greenish-brown Belgian uniform, Baron de Ceynick, Field Marshal of the Belgian Army, special representative of King Albert of the Belgians in whose realm was launched the first British attack...
...huge basket of eggs so strategically in the road that to circumvent either was impossible. Resolute, she wrenched open the limousine's door and clambered in, clutching her basket, slumping down cheerily beside His Grace, who is four times a baron, twice a marquis, twice a viscount, as well as being Earl and Duke of Abercorn. Wench and Duke rode on into Belfast, jointly steadying the eggs...
...Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was striking pon- derously with that heavy instrument, last week, the door of the Canadian House of Commons. Thus summoned, the Right Honorable Members followed Black Rod to the Red Chamber of the Canadian Senate. Soon His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, pronounced the Speech from the Throne, opening Parliament...
...Russian Soviet Government, a most satisfactory treaty continuing the rights under which Japanese go every year to fish in Siberian waters. Though this vital document emerged through routine channels, its negotiation was rumored to have been greatly furthered, at Moscow, by the "unofficial" visit of that great statesman Viscount Shimpei Goto...
First lapping merrily, then lunging lustily, impudent waves made mock, last week, of seven wise Britons who set sail as an august commission to India. Patriotic, they will slave for more than a year, voluntarily, at a thankless task. Six of the wise men are Viscount Burnham, until recently owner of the London Daily Telegraph; Baron Strathcona, Unionist peer; Lieut. Col. George Richard Lane-Fox, up to the last fortnight Undersecretary of State for Mines; the Hon. Edward Cecil Cadogan, author-barrister M. P.; Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite M. P. and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Walsh, Secretary...