Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of my distant, illustrious relative, Dean James Hanna, who was reading the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. It was July 23, 1637, and the people in St. Giles excitedly awaited the service book, which had been revised and "stamped" by Archbishops Laud and Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass' to my lug [ear]?" The dean beat a hasty retreat, but Jenny's signal touched off a riot. In spite of chastising Jenny...
...French winegrowers is currently distributing reprints of a sermon delivered in Vannes Cathedral by the Rev. M. H. Lelong. The Bible, says Roman Catholic Father Lelong, is full of wine-there are 443 Biblical references to it, in fact. "Along with bread," he writes, "it is wine that Jesus chose to perpetuate his presence among us. Wine is not an invention of the devil but a gift of our Father, who knows us and loves...
...April, the Kadar regime let the world glimpse its version of justice. In the course of secretly trying some 5,000 "criminals" (at least 113 of whom have been sentenced to death), Kadar decided to hold an open trial of eleven young Freedom Fighters. For his winning examples he chose Medical Student Ilona Toth, Editor Gyula Obersovszky, Playwright Jozsef Gali and eight others including an army lieutenant, charged them with having murdered an AVH man who had discovered that they were putting out a mimeographed revolutionary sheet called We Live! (TIME, April...
...Broadway flop in 1942), Odets said he was trying to show "how men irresponsibly wait for the voice and strong arm of Authority to bring them to life and to shape ... So can come Fascism to a whole race of people." But TV Adapter William F. Durkee Jr. chose to tread the simpler level of the story-the interplay between a clod husband, a deceitful lodger, and a restive wife who dreams of escape from the back stoop of life. Ironically, the portraits seemed to fall out of television focus when wisps of Odets ideas slipped in. Actor...
More important, Porter at last had time to write. It was on some of the 14 stories he sent out from jail that he first used the name O. Henry-he chose the last name, said Porter, out of the society columns of a New Orleans newspaper and the initial O. because it is "about the easiest letter written." These first stories have all the professionalism of his later work-they are sentimental, comic, marvelously contrived and carry a sting of surprise at the end. Many turn on what was to be a constant theme for O. Henry: the vindication...