Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ireland a generation ago would have dared contradict the smitten heart of Poet William Butler Yeats. Like the fabulous bird of Greek myth, the phoenix about whom he wrote in these lines was unique, alone of her species. Born in London, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish officer, tall, stately Maud Gonne (pronounced Gun) was educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said...
Most of the guests left early. Churchill, who had worked as usual the night before, rested in the afternoon. At dinner Churchill was grim and silent. At 9 p.m. he asked Sawyers, the butler, to bring the radio to the table. It was a $15 portable that Harry Hopkins had given him. There was a burst of music as he tuned it; then the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Churchill jumped up and started out of the room...
There is an honorable tradition of family novels in English literature, but McCrone is sadly unable to muster any of the gentle, needling satire of Jane Austen or the fierce jaundice of Samuel Butler or the sensitivity to social change of John Galsworthy. Red Plush reads as if it were written by a Moorhouse himself...
Unlike his late, great brother, Poet William Butler Yeats, Jack Yeats suffers such attacks in dignified silence. After all, he is the unquestionable dean of Irish artists. Almost everything he paints he sells at four-figure prices, and he exerts more influence than any other Dublin painter. His raucous paintings continued to speak for themselves and draw crowds to the gallery. A less well-attended Yeats exhibition opened in Manhattan...
...Freshman starting lineup: le, Bender; it, Kristopick; lg, Coyne; c. Butler; rg, Rosenau; rt, Callahan (capt.); re, Hyde; qb, Lowell; lhb, Warden; rhb, West; fb, White...