Word: cockburn
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...fifty years? Our predecessors did not seal up their choices, but we can still benefit by their wisdom and turn our attention to the leaders of the past. This June the world should hear again the names of those chosen in 1910: Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas Leonard Livermore, Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, John Pierpont Morgan, Sir John Murray, Horace Porter, George Walter Prothero, Theodore William Richards, Theobald Smith, John Eliot Thayer, Samuel Williston, Robert Archey Woods. James A. Sharaf...
...James Helvick is a nom de plume of Claude Cockburn (rhymes with toe-burn), British journalist...
...went on to roast duckling with a truly magnificent claret, St. Emilion Clos Fourtet 1943, I believe; 5) this was followed by oeufs benedictines . . . The second claret-by tradition we always take two-came with the Stilton cheese. Then we adjourned for a little fruit and some Cockburn '35-great port, that. 6) Some time later-around two in the morning-we decided that the time had come to invite the junior dean, Mr. John Cooper, to have a swim...
...Admiral Sir George Cockburn and Major General Robert Ross, the British force which raided Washington on Aug. 24, 1814 not only fired the White House, but the Capitol, the Arsenal, the War Office and the Treasury. The invaders numbered three brigades. Sir Arthur Brooke, a colonel, led a brigade composed of the 44th Regiment (his own) and the 4th, commanded by his brother Francis...