Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oxford before coming here in 1931 to teach English at Boston College. He is the author of numerous volumes of prose and verse, and several biographies. Among his better-known works are "Riddle and Reverie," "The Brown Derby," and "Fish on Friday." At present, he is stationed at St. Benedict's Center...
Minor Mission. Author Roberts is best known as a novelist with a vengeance, or at least a mission: in Rabble in Arms he argued the forgotten merits of Benedict Arnold, in Wiswell he made an earnest case for colonial Loyalists and Tories. In Lydia, the mission is a minor one. Roberts' main aim seems to be to expose the incompetence of Tobias Lear, onetime private secretary to George Washington...
...Questions? First off, he wanted the committee to know that "Ed Terry, who has been so free with his wild, hazy, vicious and traitorous hallucinations" was nothing but a "modern Benedict Arnold" and a "contemptible, pusillanimous, limicolous"* liar...
...Benedict Arnold of the Chinese Revolution," Yuan Shih-kai became Provisional President of the Chinese Republic in March 1912. The next year he disrupted the Assembly called to draft a permanent constitution, outlawed the Kuomintang Party and established himself as dictator. In 1915 Yuan restored the monarchy with himself as Emperor, but was forced to renounce the throne a few months later...
...Italy, 2,500 historic buildings got in the line of fire. The abbey atop Monte Cassino, which St. Benedict founded in 529, was a cellar drowned in rubble. But Rome escaped whole-except for the Church of San Lorenzo-outside-the-Walls, founded by Emperor Constantine (see cut). The ruins of ancient Greece (made genuine ruins by Turkish shells in 1827) had not been disturbed...