Word: amberley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Percival Christopher Wren, 56, adventure-writer (Beau Geste, Beau Sa-breur); of heart disease; in Amberley, England. A soldier-adventurer, he drew on his own experiences for much of his literary material. He was at various times a sailor, explorer, schoolteacher, boxer, major in the Indian Army. He was assistant director of education and physical culture for the Bombay Government for ten years. At his death his widow observed: "His life was one long beau geste...
...darts from 1933 to 1902, from 1902 to 1928, from the years of the War to the time of the British General Strike, a queer cast of characters takes shape. Anthony's insincere, foolish fa ther, his boyhood friends, Mark Staithes and Brian Foxe, his first mistress, Mary Amberley who is Helen's malicious, unscrupulous mother, Beppo Bowles, an aging homosexual, all appear and play their parts in forming the combination of interests, prejudices, dislikes, inhibitions, standards, that make up Anthony's character. Sometimes they merely exert a negative influence, as when Anthony recoils in disgust...
...Britain's great mathematicians is a bony, bulge-browed Peer named Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell of Kingston Russell, Viscount Amberley of Amberley & Ardsalla. He is also famed as a philosopher, logician, pacifist, historian, author, lecturer. But it is doubtful if the name of Bertrand Russell would ever have become a household word in English-speaking lands had not the blue-blooded Earl and his free-thinking second wife set out some years ago to educate the world in what they considered the ways of sexual happiness. Now familiar to every schoolgirl, their views once more made news...