Word: austen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sicily and Italy, the enlarging war in the Pacific and the massive preparations for the Normandy invasion. Yet Churchill found time to swoop down on laggard officials everywhere, keep a sharp eye on everything from poultry-feed supplies to stocks of playing cards, and make a run through Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...
...same issue of the American columnist Austen Lake wrote "I bet President James B. Conant wondered how it is that Princeton attracts ... regiments of burly foot-fast boys while Harvard gets only freshmen with webtoes' pronated feets, hollow chests, and soprano voices...
...Richard Austen Butler, 48> able intellectual and pamphleteer of the party -Chancellor of the Ex chequer. This makes him the Tories' No. 3 man, and heir to Britain's growing sterling debts, tum bling gold and dollar reserves and adverse balance of trade. Born in India, son of an academic fam (two of Harrow's headmasters have been Butlers), "Rab" Butler won highest hon ors at Cambridge (double "first" in French and history), married into the multi-million-dollar Courtaulds...
Pending Congressional tax increases aimed at cooperatives are not likely to affect the Harvard Coop or its patrons, Austen W. Scott, Dane Professor of Law and a member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Cooperative Society, explained yesterday...
Coze, to Jane Austen; was a quiet chat. "A Cozer, for me," says Brown, "would sit on dark, faded leather and talk in a low, deep voice, chuckling at his own mischief...