Word: cavaliere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Princeton's Historian Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, 68, Virginia-born chairman of the history department, whose books on the pre-Revolutionary South (The First Americans, The Founding of American Civilisation, etc.) gave U.S. history students one of their liveliest and most authoritative pictures of the Cavalier tradition, the manners...
"If the teacher doesn't have a good time while he's teaching," the professor says, "no one else does," and practices what he preaches by thoroughly enjoying each lecture. His mimicry, pantomime, and caustic remarks on every topic in the all-inclusive course resurrect authors and characters alike, and...
The weather at Virginia Beach, Va. was too cool and blustery for the Prime Minister. A few times, William Lyon Mackenzie King bundled himself up and went out for a short walk along the shore or tackled the piney woods bordering the golf course. But mostly he stayed close to...
The Cavalier's famed sunken gardens were not yet in bloom, but every day the hotel management sent up baskets of spring flowers, mainly King Alfred jonquils. The P.M. ate in the hotel dining room, and Chef Gene Gualko successfully stimulated his appetite with all sorts of southern dishes...
"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "I'm going off for a little vacation. I am going away for three weeks-if I can make it, four weeks, and I think I will." He was going to the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach, Va. Later, he might visit other southern...