Word: essex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England), believes that historians have tended to neglect or forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey's witty, popular Elizabeth and Essex...
...efforts to keep him on a diet ("two ounces of flesh" a day, and "the twentieth part of a pint of wine to comfort his stomach"), sweet Robin was getting paunchy. And then, one day, the Queen discovered that he had secretly married handsome, widowed Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex -or "that she-wolf," as the Queen preferred to call...
...aging queen promptly promoted Leicester's stepson, the Earl of Essex, to her old favorite's place. She also gleefully hounded the widowed "she-wolf" until she had got back every penny Leicester owed her. But she kept a soft spot in her heart for her old favorite. On the note that the dying man had sent her from the country, she wrote, "His last letter," and laid it away in a chest beside...
Last Chance. But last week Joe Kennedy seemed to have his old zest again. In a midnight blue Chrysler, he rode like a Paul Revere through the textile, shoe and machinery-producing towns in Middlesex, Essex, and Berkshire counties. All the way from Greenfield to Salem, in some 30 speeches within ten days, he spread the alarm...
October: Biggest carrier raid to date (Wake Island) included the Essex, the new Lexington and Yorktown, and three light flattops...