Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went farther afield, was equally interesting. Stalin placed fifth with 172 votes, just ahead of Talleyrand and Metternich. Others who made the all-star list: Mohandas K. Gandhi (with 103 votes), Frederick the Great (55), Disraeli (43), Lenin and Caesar (33), Francisco Franco (24), Marx (11), and Truman (7). Clement Attlee got one vote-three less than Jesus Christ...
...lyrics and book were written by Clement B. Wood 47 and John L. Carroll 47, and the music by Anthony L. Bonner...
...dynastic power, personal gratification and money. Life would have been simpler if people had given him what he wanted in the first place. Had Katherine of Aragon given him a son & heir, he might never have married Anne Boleyn since he might have had her as mistress; had Pope Clement VII consented to annul the marriage with Katherine, Henry might never have insisted that he, not the Pope, was head of the Church in England; had the royal treasury been full, he might never have confiscated the Church lands...
John Carroll '49 and Clement B. Wood Jr. '47 wrote the show, a Latin-American musical comedy, and Anthony Bonner '46 did the music. The book concerns a dictator of a petty Latin-American state who tries to make his country a United States in miniature. All he knows about the Leviathan to the north, though, is what he has learned from reading Life magazine for 26 years. This plot twist brings in a standard repertoire of North American racketeers, movie stars...
...Cries. Hours before the wedding, Romans by the thousands began to flock to the church. Unable to enter, they formed a solid, screaming mass from the Colosseum to Piazza Venezia. Invited guests had to push their way through sweating hordes, and became rumpled, bruised and angry. U.S. Ambassador James Clement Dunn nearly lost his coat. One man's finger was broken. Several women fainted...