Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's nothing like a wedding in the family. In Britain last week it seemed as if everyone was as busy as a bridesmaid, preparing to marry off the Princess this month. Each one had his own job. Dr. William McKie, the organist at Westminster Abbey, had a special motet to compose for the ceremony. Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King's Musick, was working out three trumpet fanfares. Painters were sprucing up Buckingham Palace, which still showed the ravages of war. Electricians were studying ways & means to bathe The Mall with light on the great night...
...them in the midst of the class. In all fairness to those who are attempting to obtain the fullest amount of instruction possible from each lecture, I urge that you take an editorial stand so that a courteous atmosphere may be restored to the classrooms of Harvard. Robert L. Abbey...
Princess Elizabeth, according to plans announced at Buckingham Palace last week, will not leave home for Westminster Abbey until 11:16 on the morning of her wedding day. Bridegroom Philip Mountbatten is scheduled to be in the Abbey at 11:15. The New York Sunday News explained this in a headline which Britons will doubtless regard as the century's worst piece of American bad taste. The headline: NO LAST-HOUR SNEAK FOR PHIL...
Princess Elizabeth was assured a packed house for her wedding procession. Sold out a month in advance: all the window space in all the buildings along the route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey-three-quarters of a mile...
...novels is a country house party where violently opinionated cranks, in an atmosphere of high spirits, alternate between chasing pretty girls and discussing everything, contradicting each other, and settling nothing-except that they make perfect butts for Peacock's gay, sometimes lethal, satire. Crotchet Castle and Nightmare Abbey, a goodnatured, witty caricature of Shelley as Scythrop dowry, the baffled lover, are probably the best of Peacock and least likely to bog the reader in temporary verbal swamps...