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...breasted grey suit, as toastmaster. The Prince talked quietly with Commander Savage and Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton until a red-coated attendant rapped the gavel. Then he lifted his glass to "The King!" made a short speech and raised his glass again "To the President of the United States." Earl Haig, British commander-in-chief in the War, recalled incidents of U. S. gallantry. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill and Mrs. Adaline Wright Macauley spoke for their respective Legion Auxiliaries...
When Governor General Earl Grey appointed Mr. Dessaulles to the Senate in 1907 the centenarian was 79 years old. Loud & long were the protests that he was "too" old." Even some of the Senators complained to Premier Sir Wilfred Laurier. But the wily French Canadian statesman smiled and said: "He will be here when most of you are gone." And, when Senator Dessaulles looks around the Senate at his slightly less hoary colleagues, he must admit that the prophecy has been fulfilled...
Princeton had usual difficulty with Amherst. A 60-yard touchdown and a forward pass from Earl Baruch, which Lowry caught to score, were essential in a 14-0 victory...
Statesmen. Among the famed statesmen noted at Geneva: Richard William Alan Onslow, Earl of Onslow, calm and ponderous. Next to him was observed his boss, natty Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Minister...
...girl was born to the fourth Earl of Mexborough and his Countess three score years and one ago. She was christened Anne, and as she grew up was familiar in London society as Lady Anne Savile. At the age of 31 she was taken to wife by Prince Ludwig Karl zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, scion of South German nobility. Two years later the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim was a widow, when the Prince fell fighting against the U. S. in Philippine skirmishes of the Spanish-American war. Not until 1912 was the Princess again heard from prominently. In that year...