Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe's President Jordan is presently in England making a thorough investigation of Anne Radcliffe's private life and 17th century religious intolerance there, Dean Sherman announced yesterday. He will return around the end of October...
...Pacific Southwest tennis championships; in Los Angeles. Playing on the Los Angeles Tennis Club's cement courts, Sedgman swept to his victory in the final over Cincinnati's Tony Trabert, 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, while Maureen, a day short of her 17th birthday, defeated Santa Monica's Beverly Baker, 9-7, 6-4. ¶Professional Golfer Betsy Rawls, 23, of Austin, Texas, the Women's National Open, with a 72-hole total score of 293; in Atlanta. In third place with a 299: veteran Professional Mildred ("Babe") Zaharias, who only last month...
...Barracks. Most rhymes, the Opies learned, were never intended for children. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" was a 17th Century Popish prayer; "Go to bed, Tom" was once a barracks ditty. "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" possibly had a "religious background ... 'a word-picture of Our Lady's Convent' . . . the bells being the sanctus bells, the cockleshells the badges of the pilgrims, and the pretty maids the nuns...
...courtesy of the road, in truth as in ballad, was subject to broad interpretations on the narrow highways of 17th and 18th Century England. Bold Dick Turpin was one, but only one, of a numerous night-errantry that pranced the moonlight lanes about London, hearts high and pistols level, to cry the hapless traffic to Stand and deliver what it had in pocket. "The finest men in England, physically speaking," said Thomas De Quincey, "the very noblest specimens of man, considered as an animal, were the mounted robbers who cultivated their profession of the great roads...
...grislier practitioners of the 17th Century were Thomas Wilmot and William Cady. Once when a lady's ring refused to come off her finger, Highwayman Wilmot cut off the one to get the other; when one lady swallowed her wedding ring to keep it from his clutches, Highwayman Cady slit her belly open and took the ring anyway. Nevertheless, such ferocities were few, especially for an age that hanged a man as promptly for simple theft as for murder...