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...Earl of Shrewsbury and not the Duke of Norfolk is Premier Earl of England. The Duke of Norfolk is Hereditary Earl Marshal from which TIME's mistake doubtless arose...
Would Anglophile DuBois dispute Burkes or Debrett's Peerages? Both list Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, as "Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, Premier Duke and Premier Earl...
Since the War, the history of professional football has been in a sense the history of the Green Bay Packers. Organized in 1919. the Packers are the oldest team in the National League. Coach of the Packers since 1919 has been Earl Louis ("Curly") Lambeau, a Green Bay boy who played at Notre Dame in Knute Rockne's first year as head coach. He organized the team, got a local packing company to supply uniforms. Since 1921, when they bought a franchise in the National League, the Packers have not only made the little dairy town of Green...
...soothing the jangled feelings of Secretary of State Seward with optimistic dispatches. Without Minister Adam's consummate statecraft the United States of America might never have emerged from the Civil strife. There could have been war with England as well as with the rebellious South. Once, when Earl Russell assured Adams that there would be no intervention, that England's policy would remain unchanged, Adams was unaware that a few hours previously Russell had proposed intervention to a cabinet which rejected his proposal. Henry Adams records that although the Minister never thought Earl Russell was a liar...
...term, Wodehouse gets away with comic murder by a species of inspired silliness that is funny only because it is so uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star and the amiable, gorilla-faced Earl, with the result that the Earl romps around, paying off childhood scores, until he becomes known as the fiend of Hollywood, while the golden-haired child star takes to whiskey and soda and pays calls on cinema queens. But to speak of Wodehouse's plot is like speaking...