Word: earling
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...earldom upon the Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, Premier of Great Britain and Ireland from 1908 to 1915-the longest period of time that the office has been held by one man since the Ministry of Lord Liverpool (1812-1827). The new peer chose the historic title of Earl of Oxford*, and His Majesty's sanction for the revival of that title was obtained...
...probable that they knew that their owner, Earl Spencer, had died; but even if they did, they could not have understood. Death, for those who derive their being from the paint of Master Artists, is a phenomenon hardly less comprehensible than change. Yet there was the fact, the Earl was dead and change was upon them. All this...
...royalties for this invention. So many consumers became converts to the soft collar that existing makers of hard collars began to feel the competition seriously, began to make soft collars themselves, in alleged violation of the Van Heusen patents. Chief among these were Cluett, Peabody & Co., Earl & Wilson, Manhattan Shirt Co., Hall Hartwell Co., George P. Ide Co., Vanzandt, Inc. and Lion Shirt...
Lass O' Laughter. Flora Le Breton, London actress, has arrived in a comedy that is a mixture of Bertha M. Clay* and lemon meringue pie. She starts as a slavey, advances via an inheritance to the lordly Maxwell Towers, marries the glistening young Earl. So oldfashioned, obvious and generally fallible is the piece that there remain only the efforts of Miss Le Breton for discourse. She is called "the Mary Pickford of England." Many cinema potentates were in the initial audience to judge her values. She turned out to be a small and somewhat fluffy blonde, abounding in energy...
...White Cargo" at the Selwyn. Earl Carroll presents Leon Gordon in his own play, the tropical drama of Englishmen rotting in an African jungle, which created such a stir in New York last year...