Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pygmalion. Carolina's benefactor was an Englishman named Robert Wilbraham Fitz Aucher. A vicar's son, Fitz Aucher was a man of great charm and erratic fortune. Three years ago he struck it rich when he sold a rust-proofing process to a Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent...
...officer of So Little Time remarks of Liszt's music that "you cannot only play the notes; you must go through the notes and come out the other side." In a way, that is what they have tried to do with So Little Time, a movie set against the Belgian Ressistance movement of World...
...story inevitably follows from one situation: that of a German officer billeted with an old Belgian lady and her daughter. Despite their differences in age and background, the officer and the daughter fall in love. But as the Resistance spreads they become caught up in the war, against themselves. When the movie is half over the ending has become clear...
Last year, three students from the College accompanied Carroll at their own expense on a scientific expedition to the Belgian Congo. The undergraduates studied anthropology, botany, zoology, and linguistics among the African tribes...
...guns: a Belgian .410 over-and-under and a double-barreled 20-gauge Winchester...