Word: eldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girl I Left Behind Me, rendered by the Royal Marines band, on his 26,000 mile voyage to South Africa and South America (TIME, Mar. 23). At London, Premier Baldwin said good-by in a sprightly 15-minute conversation punctuated frequently by hearty laughter. Prince Henry accompanied his eldest brother to Portsmouth, but Prince George, without tonsils (TIME, Mar. 30), was not permitted by his doctors to sally forth into the raw air of a cold March. The. Sunday Times paid the Prince high tribute : "Millions of his fellow subjects in these isles will miss him as the sauce piquante...
...widower, he married Grace Hinds, daughter of the late ]. Monroe Hinds, onetime U. S. Minister to Brazil, widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. The marquisate and earldom now become extinct. Richard Nathaniel Curzon, nephew, succeeds by "special remainder" to the Viscounty of Scarsdale. Lady Mary Irene Curzon, eldest daughter, and granddaughter of Levi Z. Leiter, becomes, also by special remainder, Baroness of Ravensdale in her own right...
...thought of Lord Balfour, the eldest of Britain's Elder Statesmen; Lord Derby, a popular figure in politics ; the Duke of Devonshire, austere, rotund. He thought of slightly reshuffling the Cabinet by making Lord Cecil, who is Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, or Lord Salisbury, who is Lord Privy Seal, Lord President of the Council. But he came to no decision...
...Dessau, Frau Becker, laborer's wife, gave birth to her 27th child, a boy, in the 47th year of her life. On the same night, Herr Becker's eldest married sister gave birth to twins...
George Jay, the eldest son, undertook to complete his father's transcontinental system and "muffed it." He started building the Western Pacific. He fought Harriman, Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He bought an entrance into Pittsburgh for the Wabash at a great price. When the panic of 1907 came, several of the roads were in poor condition, went into bankruptcy and George Jay was obliged to go to his enemies for money. He lost control of the Missouri Pacific, of the Western Union Telegraph Co., of the Denver & Rio Grande. He lost the Western Pacific, the Texas Pacific. Meanwhile...