Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he thought of writing plays, or had a spare shilling to spend on a ticket to the Abbey Theater, O'Casey swung a pick & shovel as a day laborer, worked at nights for the cause of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived with his mother in a few flea-ridden Dublin slum rooms. When bis sister died, there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers...
...specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...
...monks of the Abbey Van Berne in Holland hid their rarest volumes in local farmhouses; virtually all were destroyed. In Manila it was the same story...
Scrapping. The Security Council meets in Church House just behind Westminster Abbey. There the test came last week when Britain's Ernie Bevin rose ponderously from his se.at near Vishinsky. Bevin, looking straight ahead, said: "I think it would be a great mistake if any country could not have its complaint heard." Everyone in the room snapped to attention. Vishinsky was a picture of pallid, intense concern. Bevin warmed up throatily on Greece (which Russia had brought up to counteract talk about Iran). Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, leaned forward and tried in vain...
...been said that "when Wordsworth's inferior work has been pruned away, only a half dozen first-rate poems remain. Arnold in his selection found 312 pages of first-rate poetry; Housman finds only 129 pages. Included in his selections are the Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Tintern Abbey, Michael, the best episode from The Prelude, a few narrative poems and a swatch of lyrics, 14 of Wordsworth's grand total of nearly 150 sonnets (some of which Housman considers greater than Milton's). All the Lucy poems are included. From one of them Editor Housman invites...