Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS (1,831 pp.)-John Bartlett-12th Edition Revised & Enlarged by Christopher Morley & Louella D. Everett-Little, Brown...
Last week in the bishop's palace (now a municipal museum), some of Limoges' ancient pride was reassembled. In these enamels of the 12th, 13th and 14th Centuries, the intricate colored plaques, chalices and crucifixes recalled Byzantine mosaics and Gothic stained glass. But the enamels had one element those two mediums lacked-a quality of much-in-little. That quality, which appealed strongly to the medieval mind, had made Limoges enamels sought after by men of the Chateaux and men of the Church...
...best of these self-propelled movies went on exhibition in Manhattan last week at the Metropolitan Museum. The scroll depicted a spring festival, Ch'ing Ming ("Clear and Bright"), as it was celebrated along the Yellow River in 12th Century China...
Last week, the rhymester, 47, wrote a suicide note leaving his worldly goods to his second wife. Then he jumped from his 12th-floor Manhattan studio. Don Wahn's last heartbroken lines appeared a day later...
...took to heart the injunction of his mother (who died when he was four) that her children should be "undogmatic and unsectarian Christians, charitable to all churches and sects." He came of a long line of British squires who, from the time of Willmus Cripps in the 12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born in 1889, the year Uncle Sidney and Aunt Beatrice published the famous Fabian Essays in Socialism...