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...Earl Carrol has usually depended upon beautiful girls scantily clad to put over any one of his reviews. His shows have hardly ever been known for their swinging or tuneful songs nor for their particularly funny skits. His skits have been known more for the close bordering on obscenity than for their...
...Earl of Birkenhead passed peacefully away at 11:15 this morning. There had been a further increase in the pneumonic infection, and the heart muscles, feeling the effect of this, dilated and failed...
Recognizing that the Earl belonged first to Law, Margaret Countess of Birkenhead and her children stood aside. "He was a truly wonderful man," said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, often target of the Earl's most scathing shafts. "To disagree with Lord Birkenhead in no way diminished the extraordinary respect which one had to pay to his powers...
...cushion stuffed with wool), sat on it as a Lord Chancellor must, rested his foot on it now and then as a Lord Chancellor must not. In 1919 he became Baron Birkenhead, in 1921 accepted a Viscountcy commemorating his wife's maiden name (Furneaux), and in 1922 was created Earl of Birkenhead with an arrogant-humorous armorial motto of his own devising Faber Meae Fortunae: "[I'm] the Smith of my own Fortune...
Never did a Government stand in such need of "first class brains"; but the Earl was never worse cast than in his new role. To Birkenhead's cold, precise, savage legal mind Indian statesmen with their loose, mystic reasoning from aspiration and intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his arrogance to the meekest people on earth he sowed resentment wide and deep, possibly is most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned...