Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Santayana, 81-year-old poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan), was awarded Columbia University's quinquennial Nicholas Murray Butler gold medal for his four metaphysical books, Realms of Being. The award will have to go to Rome where, since 1941, he has shunned war in a convent, finding that "in solitude it is possible to love mankind...
...alone in his rooms, he would find himself face to face with what Author Lennon believes was the other major problem of his life - his religious beliefs. To be a rebel in Victorian England required unusual boldness, and while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would...
...such familiar bravura; it is in the muted perfection of Miss Lillie's general performance, and in the excellence of the supporting players. It is in the way Clive Brook handles his stick and gloves, or invites himself downstairs for a drink with his former butler, or ribs "daring" pictures in a male bathtub scene which is the nakedest thing outside a travelogue in years. It is the tone in which Roland Culver murmurs "Many congratulations" after Mrs. Wislack's announcement that her income is ?25,000 a year. It is in Miss Withers' rejection...
...members of the Harvard Outing Club's ski team will participate in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival Saturday and Sunday, February 3 and 4. Entered in the Giant Slalom to be held Saturday morning are Allan C. Butler, V-12; Gorald Y. Genn '48; Lawrence L. Griffin '48; and Thomas P. Grimley, NROTC. Saturday afternoon Alexander P. Coburn '48; Howard C. Nutting, V-12; Genn; and Griffin will take part in the 40 meter jump...
...fight is not entirely over. Mayor Butler thinks that the city can save money by acquiring the company by condemnation, instead of from the Myers' group. Omaha will not vote on this until spring. But in any case Guy Myers has finished his work in Nebraska. There is nothing more to sell...