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Cause of the outburst was the refusal of the Government spokesman, Earl Stanhope, Undersecretary for War. to give the Government's definite policy for the World Economic Conference...
Canada's Governor General Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough, in England on leave, tried to catch a drunken monkey on his Hampshire estate by swooping on it in an airplane, dropping a net. The monkey, which had taken to the Earl's whiskey, escaped in the underbrush...
...Charles Courtney, who rifled the safes of the sunken Egypt 400 ft. undersea (TIME, June 2, July 18), was back in Man- hattan with a sensational version of the salvaging of H. M. S. Hampshire in the North Sea. The Hampshire, victim of a German mine, went down with Earl Kitchener and some $10,000,000 in gold aboard...
...that the present Duke is still a persistent foxhunter at the age of 84, and noting the aura of British vigor apparent in your portrait of him, may guess that he comes of a family notable solely for its blustering militance. Such a guess would be incorrect. Garret Wellesley, Earl of Mornington and father of the first Wellington, had tastes which were singular indeed in the begetter of an Iron Duke. It is known to relatively few Americans, save such insatiable antiquaries as myself, that the Earl of Mornington was addicted to playing violin sonatas while seated in an armchair...
...only way to reach the locker rooms from the field at Washington is through a passageway which starts just beside the Washington players' bench. When Chapman reached the passageway on his way off the field. Earl Whitehill, Washington pitcher, called him a bad name. This was more than Fielder Chapman, already humiliated, could bear. He rushed at Whitehill, hit him. Umpire Moriarty tried to pull the fighters apart but failed. This time, all the players on both teams rushed at each other not to stop the fight but to enlarge it. Private detectives, uniformed policemen and about 300 spectators...