Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scandal), made five-hour speeches in Parliament, bet foolishly on innumerable horses, was buried with high ritual in Westminster Abbey. He was a breath-taking swell; far sweller than the lacy-sleeved heroes of his dramas. Even Captain Jack Absolute of The Rivals pales by comparison with his dashing creator. Captain Jack, as everyone well-versed in English drama knows, conducts his courtship of Miss Lydia Languish under an assumed name, because she is so rich herself that she fancies a penurious lover. Lydia is in care of the imposing, loquacious Mrs. Malaprop, who moves with the majesty...
Following are the members of the Harvard faculty who were appointed: Dr. K. J. Conant '15, assistant professor of Architecture, whose project will be the continuation of the restoration of the Abbey Church of Cluny in co-operation with the Mediaeval Academy of America; Dr. J. D. Wild, Jr., instructor in Philosophy, holder of an M.A. degree from Harvard in 1925, whose project will be studies of the philosophical works of George Berkeley, and research in European libraries and consultation with authorities; Dr. C. W. Dodge, curator of the Farlow Herbarium, who will complete a work on the Lichen Flora...
...reason or another, but teaching erroneous history is something new. Go to your barber's and turn to page 52 of the current number of the Lampoon. What do you find insinuated there? That Will, who as everyone knows rests in Stratford-on-Avon, is buried in the Abbey...
Other incorporated peers include: the 72-year-old Duke of Portland, whose ancestral Welbeck Abbey contains a half mile of subterranean secret passages; the large-toothed Earl of Harewood, formerly Viscount Lascelles, husband of Princess Mary; Viscount Astor, husband of Lady Nancy Astor...