Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Edward John Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby, 30, one of Britain's richest peers, who succeeded to the 463-year-old title on his grandfather's death in February; and Lady Isabel Milles-Lade, 28, Mayfair beauty; in London, at a wedding attended by the royal family...
...thinks of himself as having "much more to do with the 18th or 17th Century than the present one. The workmanship was much better in Bach's time than it is now. One had first to be a craftsman. Now we have only talent. We do not have the absorption in detail, the burying of oneself to be resurrected a great musician...
...away, his name was lost. His scattered paintings, only a few of them signed, and all of them showing the influence of the great Caravaggio, were attributed to Caravaggio's followers and other artists: the brothers Le Nain, Vermeer, the obscure 17th Century Antoine de Latour and the 18th Century Maurice Quentin de la Tour...
Henry Cotton is the highest paid and best dressed pro in Britain. At last year's British Open, he parked his big black Rolls-Royce beside the 18th green at Hoylake, so that he could drive away triumphantly when his day's work was done (he finished sixth). No such liberties were permitted last week at Muirfield, which Scots regard as hallowed ground. In the qualifying round he shot two 69s, to lead the field. The skeptics considered it a fluke. Some crack golfers had struggled in behind him. From the U.S. had come 13 talented men, including...
Last week, just five days before he turned 33, Benezet became the 18th president of Pennsylvania's tiny Allegheny College at Meadville, the nation's youngest president of a Class A college...