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...Earl Peel (twice Secretary of State for India [1922-24; 28-29] representing the British Conservative Party...
...Appointed under the late Earl of Birkenhead when Secretary of State for India, Sir John Simon shared the Birkenhead view that no Indian should sit on the Simon commission, and none...
Weeks of constant rain, constant seepings from the flooded river Saone had turned the interior of Fourviere to a quaking pudding. Earl)' in the week engineers reported danger of landslides to city authorities. At 1:15 in the morning people living on the flank of Fourviere heard a noise ''like the crack of doom" felt the world slip out beneath them...
...confused with the late, great Lord Balfour (Arthur James Balfour. 1st Earl of Balfour), author of the "Balfour Declaration...
Elizabeth The Queen is a sabre-rattling, pompous historical pageant which relates Maxwell Anderson's idea of the love of the Virgin Queen for the Earl of Essex. Author Lytton Strachey's notion to the contrary, Mr. Anderson's Elizabeth (Lynn Fontanne) and Essex (Alfred Lunt) are heroic amorists whose sturdy devotion is thwarted only because they love power more. To indicate her robustness Mrs. Lunt feels called upon to pitch her usually pleasant voice very deep in her throat and to speak her lines as loudly as possible, the effect of which is not unlike...