Word: cavaliere
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The King's War, 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. History is a people's memory, and few have summoned up Britain's more vividly than Historian Wedgwood in this scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead.
Britain's great civil war began in 1642. It is still being fought. Every schoolboy, guided more by his own temperament than historical fact, still takes sides as a dashing Cavalier or a solid Roundhead-which is perhaps one reason why modern Britain rests its institutions in an all...
The Cavaliers sang their jaunty When the King Enjoys His Own Again. But from start to finish, "the Parliamentarians encouraged a solemn godliness" that was best expressed by the Roundhead who said: "Is any merry? Let him sing psalms." The exhortation made sense to London's Protestant merchants, who...
Budding Irony. With the infinite patience of a housewife unsnarling an atrocious tangle of wool, Author Wedgwood shows just how the men of Parliament, aided by the Calvinist Scots, wound up the bright Cavalier cause, captured its fugitive leader and beheaded him. Their answer to flamboyant dash was the sturdy...
The Alumni Bulletin's rejection of a Veritas Foundation advertisement, "without even giving us a reason, indicates a rather cavalier attitude," Archibald B. Roosevelt '17, a trustee of the Foundation, declared yesterday. Pertaining to the nomination of Ralph Bunche for the Board of Overseers, the full-page advertisement that was...