Word: alee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the same punchbowl that has refreshed visiting Cambridge celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve ale to Somerset Maugham, famous English novelist, whose latest contribution to the movies. "The Moon and Sixpence," had its Boston premier last evening...
...first scholarship 51 years ago at the Royal Academy in Constantinople, came with his family to the U.S. when he was 18. He studied in Paris for nine years, there confirmed his devotion to the man he considers the greatest of all still-life painters, Jean Chardin. His luminous, ale-brown eyes flash when he speaks of the exactions of technique, which so many modern artists seem to neglect. Last week he had on his easel what looked like a well-composed impressionist painting, the color masses and emergent figures just right. It represented five weeks' work-only Stage...
...soon they were balancing teacups on their knees in white folks' houses, smoking tight-rolled English cigarets and guzzling flat English ale. When they wrote the folks back home, perhaps they complained of the damp English weather, the limp food. Or perhaps they mentioned stout John Parrish, pubkeeper of The Bull, who said: "My pub is open to everyone who behaves himself. The Negroes could teach some of our boys some manners...
...came to pass last week at Caxton Hall Registry office in Westminster that Virginia Lucie became Lady Northampton. That day the tenants at Castle Ashby forgot about the war for one day and sang and danced and drank old ale, as tenants have done for centuries when the master takes a bride. "Be you all of good cheer," said His Lordship. "God bless you, sir, and may your line increase," the tenants cried. And then the Marquess and his Lady left for a honeymoon at His Lordship's country cottage at Loch Luichart in Scotland, and began to live...
Even Harvard's education will be a speeded-up affair, and the old days of quiet bull-sessions over a glass of ale and frequent evenings spent in Boston have probably disappeared for the duration if not forever...