Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plough and the Stars (RKO) is Dudley Nichols' adaptation of Sean O'Casey's famed play about Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. As the prize exhibit in the repertoire of the Abbey Players, The Plough and the Stars long ago achieved the rating of a contemporary classic. Its grimy and discursive picture of Dublin life, as background for the grim story of its principals, made it a contemptuous portrait, almost a definition of Ireland before the Free State. The current version of The Plough and the Stars-in which Director John Ford was assisted...
...alter the world. Trotsky, always impatient, rushed immediately to Lenin's house and routed him out just before dawn. The majestically calm genius of Lenin and the excited, flashing genius of Trotsky led then and there to a long, foggy, disputatious walk in the vicinity of Westminster Abbey...
...which the King may ask them to meet Mrs. Simpson. The Chaplain of the Archbishop of Canterbury made this clear when he denied a story that the Archbishops had told the King they would not attend "any function" at which Mrs. Simpson is present. Thus her presence in Westminster Abbey would not be taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury as precluding his officiating to crown King Edward...
...fails in his attempt to run a farm; another marries, begins practice as a dentist. The oldest granddaughter, Josie. a trim, efficient business girl, is having a secret love affair with her employer, marries him when his wife and daughter are killed in an automobile wreck. A younger granddaughter, Abbey, works as a schoolteacher, becomes a Communist, emigrates to Russia. Her twin brother, Louis, struggles against his homosexual impulses and becomes a school principal as well as the editor of Gregrannie's unpublished works. For 491 pages Gregrannie observes this crowded scene, until on her hundredth birthday, with...
...when he stated that German aviators dropped plague bacilli bombs on British forces during the War, again in 1935 when he organized the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society in a crusade to legalize "mercy killings" of incurable patients by their physicians. Offered the honor of burying him in Westminster Abbey, Lord Moynihan's family refused, buried him near his wife in Leeds...