Word: beckett
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...Durham, 1937; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs since 1935; M.P. (C.) Warwick and Leamington since 1923; Trustee of National Gallery since 1935; 2nd surv. s. of late Sir William Eden, 7th and 5th Bart.; b. 12 June 1897; m. 1923, Beatrice Helen, d. of Hon. Sir Gervase Beckett, 1st Bart.; two s. Educ.: Eton, Christ Church, Oxford; B.A. First Class Honours (Oriental languages), 1922. Formerly Captain King's Royal Rifle Corps; served World War, 1915-19, with his regiment, and as G.S.O.3, and as Brigade Major (M.C.) ; contested Spennymoor Division of Durham, 1922; attended Imperial Press Conference, Melbourne...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Overture to "Orpheus in Hades" Offenbach *Minuet (for Strings) Bolzoni *Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Wheeler Beckett, Guest Conductor *Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner Symphony No. 1, in C minor Beckett Burroughs Newsboys Harmonica Band "Night Froth," Rhapsody Peggy Stuart Fantasia, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge "Up the Street," March Morse *Selections, checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Murder in the Cathedral", while leaving one a little confused over its general aim and import, at the same time delights through the rich variety of its mingled intellectual, poetic, and dramatic offerings. The theme is that of a proud man. Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking and winning martyrdom. But interlarded with this central stuff are a chorus of sombre monks and another of wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious...
First U. S. issue led off with poems under the editorial heading, VERTIGRAL, presumably meaning giddy. Presumably speaking of death, Samuel Beckett, author of More Pricks Than Kicks, wrote...
...respect and disdain, as if striving to find some intellectual justification for the pains and punishments they describe in connection with every battle. Beginning with Homer and ending with Ernest Hemingway, Boxing in Art and Literature includes Hazlitt's famed The Fight, Arnold Bennett's report on Beckett v. Carpentier, Irvin S. Cobb on Carpentier v. Dempsey, 45 illustrations by Eakins, Bellows and 35 others, is essentially a handsome gift book that possesses more literary interest than gift books usually have...