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...Adjuring their lordships to moderate their indignation. Lord Taylor finally moved a compromise: ban the Good Humor bells before noon and after 7 p.m., and thereby save the country from the worst of it. After two hours and some 23 speeches, the House passed the bill as amended. Grumbled Earl Attlee. author of the welfare state and liberator of India: "Before we assent to these bells, I think we should know a little more...
...press itself recognized its considerable contributions to the Kennedy campaign. Said Columnist William S. White, who is also Washington man for Harper's Magazine: "The press was partly responsible for the [Kennedy] landslide. It made Kennedy's nomination inevitable days before it actually was." Earl Mazo, author (Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait) and national political correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, agreed: "Probably he'd have made it anyway, but the press gave him a big psychological boost by presenting his claims so affirmatively...
...EARL G. TALBOTT New York...
...unknown "dark lady of the sonnets." Biographers have found traces of this siren's raven hair, pitch-black eyes, jigging walk, panting breath and wanton ways in the characters of Ophelia, Cressida and Cleopatra. The third event was the arrest and imprisonment of Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton, for helping Essex plot against the Queen. In combination, these events seem to have left Shakespeare at times with a bleak view of man's fate, and a nausea of sex. No existentialist has found life more meaningless than Shakespeare's "tale told by an idiot...
Winifred Wells, Lady Falmouth, the Countess of Kildare, Frances Stuart, Lou ise de Keroualle, Hortense Mancini and Nell Gwynn. "God would not damn a man for a little irregular pleasure," Charles said happily to a friend. Dignity sometimes demanded that he send John Wilmot, the licentious second Earl of Rochester, to the Tower of London for writing obscene satires. But the King always...