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Half way between Rugely and Lichfield, Staffordshire, is the village of Kings Bromley, where once a lady lived, and was wooed by one Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry. Forthwith, she rode through the streets of Coventry at noon on a white horse and she had nothing on at all but the long-yellow hair which hung down from her head. She was the Lady Godiva, and her ride delivered the people from a tax their lord had put on them and which history has told about. This month the village of Kings Bromley comes up for sale...
...characteristic crusades. It hurled its lead at the publishers and venders of "a flood of fake nude 'art' magazines," which was, to judge by World headlines, contaminating the entire city. Municipal officials were hogtied, it appeared, by equivocal court decisions on the public display of sexy literature. Producer Earl Carroll had been acquitted of his naked posters. Harper's had not been fined for publishing confessions of a whore. Since the Carroll acquittal undressed ladies had posed and posed for commercial photog- raphers?just a small group of them?and fly-by-night panderers had bought and bought the pictures...
...Arctic plain in north Asia or America. Author Earl Rossman of Black Sunlight (1926) mentions that the last migration of the Alaskan lemmings (Lemmus migripen) occurred...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "There has been no more spectacular career in our time than his. . . . He is frankly an adventurer, and declares himself...
...Smith, Viscount Furneaux and Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "As a member of the fashionably rowdy London Kit-Cat Club I assumedly viewed with alarm the publicity which it received last week, due to the shocking behavior of a Lord. Driven by one 'Teddy Oysters,' valiant old-school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering...