Word: abell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emblazoned with the Canadian crest. Protocol-Master George Thomas Summerlin dropped his hand-rolled, brown-paper cigaret, brushed off his pencil-stripe trousers, walked down the station stairs to greet the tweedy Guards-mustached Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada, his wife, Princess Alice, their daughter, Lady May Abel Smith...
...publicly to approve birth control.) London papers, which would never dare fake such a story, have asserted several times that Edward VIII when Prince of Wales proposed marriage to Athlone's homey daughter Lady May Cambridge, great favorite of Queen Mary, but she preferred to marry Captain Henry Abel Smith of the Royal Horse Guards...
Come-on for the next program: Shall Eve tell Cain and Abel of their parents' past? "Does she fear that the revelation of her guilt will cause her sons to lose their love and respect for her?" (Organ music...
Next to Phi Beta Kappa, the Pore is Harvard's oldest club. Best-documented version of its founding: about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...
When retired General Abel Clement-Grandcourt of the French Army enlisted as a private after the outbreak of World War II, Le Journal cracked: "And Corporal Hitler has enlisted as Generalissimo." Honorably discharged a month ago because of "feeble health," irrepressible General Clement-Grandcourt, 66, turned up last week in Helsinki as a private in the Finnish Army...