Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respectfully submit, therefore, that the Young Progressive are somewhat overhasty in their demands upon Massachusetts Hall. Aubrey K. Loomis...
Joza Vilfan, Yugoslavian delegate to the UN, will head the list of speakers. The remainder of the panel includes Aubrey Eban, Israeli delegate to the UN, Abraham Feller, LL.B. '28, director of the UN Legal department, and Chester Williams, former public liaison officer of the U.S. delegation...
Olivet needed money badly. Some teachers were owed several months' worth of back salaries. So a business man and lawyer was brought in as the new President, Aubrey L. Ashby, Olivet '08, a former vice president and general counsel of the National Broadcasting Company...
Quibbling Oldsters. Aubrey loved the medieval manor house, half dwelling, half barnyard, where the cackling and lowing of livestock were "then thought not . . . ill musique." But, unlike most antiquarians, he never allowed nostalgia to blind him to the bad aspects of the good old days: "The conversation and habits of those times were as starcht as their bands and square beards; and gravity was then taken for wisdom. The doctors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles past for wit even in their sermons...
...Aubrey struck one of his contemporaries as "shiftless . . . roving . . . magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crazed." Yet his collection of yarns and records is today one of Oxford University's most priceless possessions. Anthony Powell's new biography of Aubrey (the first written in more than a century) shows why. He may not have been a great scholar, but like his contemporary, Sam Pepys, he had a lively...