Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years. Out of vast herds there now remain in North America about 22,000 known buffaloes (protected by the U. S. and Canadian Governments), in Europe 59 known bison (protected through the European Bison Society). Most important European herd is the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn Abbey, England, where he has successfully crossbred the American and European strains. Next week Director William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Society sails to Europe to study the possibilities of a bison breeding park in Poland. If he finds the project feasible, his Society will appropriate...
...enormous, comparatively new red-&-white-striped Westminster Cathedral must be carefully distinguished from the Church of England's ancient stone Westminster Abbey, a few streets distant...
Died. Kathleen ("Old Kate") McNeil, 88, race card seller at the Derby and other tracks for the last 61 years; in London. King George V, Queen Mary and the royal princes were patrons of hers. At the Thanksgiving Service held in Westminster Abbey in 1928 Old Kate was given a seat in the front row among the foreign ambassadors to the Court of St. James...
Behind this mask, Mr. Read finds to his almost gleeful surprise, a suppressed soul. So long as his love for Annette burned in his spirit, he could write such great poems as "Tintern Abbey". But the fog of British respectability soon clouded this source of poetic feeling, and after ten short years the fire went out for lack of fuel and encouragement. After that there is nothing. As long as Annette lived he was that poet of "reality" but one his love for her died he saw things only through the smoked glasses of conventionality. From that time...
...Murphy, shouting insults at other actors in a rich brogue, taking his coat half off to fight imaginary enemies, leaping on chairs to deliver political orations. His gross cartoon of an aged playboy of the western world comes off admirably, although the walls of Dublin's hallowed Abbey Theatre, where Mr. Sinclair used to perform mystic Synge dramas and nationalistic plays with the Irish Players, probably trembled when he accepted this role in rough-&-tumble farce...