Word: campion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rogues' gallery of Mayfair cads and bounders. Most critics found these novels much too funny to be taken seriously. But in 1930, Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic. He crowned his conversion with a most unfunny biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, and with his most glacially sardonic novel, A Handful of Dust (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934), a satire on aimless decay and aimless viciousness in the patriciate. Later came Put Out More Flags, a hilariously mordant comedy about Britain's Wrorld War II bureaucrats and racketeers...
...clerk, bewigged and begowned Sir Gilbert Campion, rose and pointed silently at National Liberal George Lambert, M.P. since 1891. Lambert then proposed Colonel the Rt. Hon. Douglas Clifton Brown, an Old Etonian, veteran of the First Dragoon Guards and the Northumberland Hussar Yeomanry, and Deputy Speaker since 1938. Smart aleck Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish...
TRAITOR'S PURSE-Margery Alllngham -Crime Club ($2). Daffy from a copper's clout, Albert Campion sheds his amnesia in time's nick, saves England from civil commotion. Present are Manservant Lugg and Lady Amanda Fritton, Campion's fiancee. Another of Margery Allingham's well-made, well-mannered British stories...
Forced to play defensively throughout the game, Coach Tom Campion's men never really had a chance to do consistent scoring. Although there was no outstanding performer for the Freshmen, Hill was the star of the game, bagging five goals for the victors...
Severely handicapped by injuries, probation, and lack of equipment, Coach Tom Campion's Yardling lacrosse men will be definitely the underdogs tomorrow when they face a strong Exeter team, last year's New England prep school champions...