Word: 1760s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stilted scenes of the chase for a curio such as Tregonwell Frampton Arrested by a Bea dle, or The Ancient Ceremony of Cheese-rolling; and could pass pleasant minutes in contemplation of George Stubbs's beautifully painted study of Gimcrack (see cut), a magnificent grey horse of the 1760s, or of Marshall's John ("Gentle man") Jackson, a straight, first-rate study of the prime pugilist of the Regency...
...turn of the 18th century, according to Morison, there is evidence of students "actually having performed a stage play," but it was not until the 1760s that the situation began to get out of control, thereby necessitating the Corporation's severe pronouncement of 1762. Productions such as Addison's "Cato" took place in 1758, but care was taken that the drama did not exceed the limits of propriety. In 1765, a cryptic diary notation reads "Scholars punished at College for acting over the great and last day in a very shocking manner, personating the Devil...
...story is set in the early 1760s. Miss Goddard, an English girl, is accused -unjustly, of course-of crime, and is sentenced to 14 years' slavery in North America. The highest bid comes from Captain Cooper of the Virginia militia. A scoundrel, Howard DaSilva, tricks Cooper out of his new property. The picture thereupon settles down in and near Fort Pitt, which every schoolboy will presumably recognize as early Pittsburgh...
...1760s, Sir Hugh Smithson, Duke of Northumberland, took up with Elizabeth Keate Macie, reputed descendant of Henry VII. One result: a son, James Smithson, who became a leading chemist, but because of the bar sinister never a duke. Wrote he: "On my father's side I am a Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten...
...fodder this 776-page narrative of the Revolutionary frontier will satisfy munchers of romance as much as its mixture of admirable material and thoroughly uninspired talent will disappoint critics. In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses the wild Alleghenies, gets into practically everything out there from the 1760s on, up to and including the last Indian war dance at Chicago...