Word: carta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain with a high professional polish. But the competence of the first show, a playlet dealing with an insurance agent falsely accused of murder and attempted rape, was overshadowed by the glossy commercials delivered in pear-shaped tones by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. himself, and including asides on the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, and the suggestion that the international set is rapidly abandoning pink champagne in favor of the more dizzying delights of Rheingold beer...
When an American goes to his first cricket match you can bet he'll come away thinking he's seen the world's dullest national game. But to all Englishman, things couldn't look more different. Cricket is to him--and has been almost since Magna Carta--the one sport truly beyond comparison. Some men like soccer, and some prefer rugby, while Scotsmen may say field hockey is better than either. But none will disagree about cricket. Its lack of action is its boast, not its shame. Its long matches, which last anywhere from one afternoon to four full days...
...years, generations of royal swans have lived a fine life on the Thames, admired and fed by folk from Magna Carta Island to the Tower of London...
...Going back to Magna Carta . . ." said Tory M.P. Sir Herbert Williams in the House of Commons question period last week, "has not a British subject an unqualified right to leave this country and to come back...
...fortnight ago, to the jubilation of the St. Louis faculty, the Vatican's permission arrived. "It was as if nobody had made copies of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta and you asked permission to do so and got it," one Jesuit gulped. Among the manuscripts likely to be photographed: the 4th Century Codex Vaticanus, a Greek Bible with the oldest and most important extant copy of the New Testament; the Codex Marchalianus, a 6th Century vellum scroll containing the complete Old Testament prophets; the original author's manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas...