Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 54-year-old philosopher and British Information-Pleaser, whose photogenic satyr-beard has long been familiar to British newspaper readers, displayed a little-known side of himself to the public. Occasion: a swimming party at a new youth hostel, which Philosopher Joad ceremoniously opened after an august arrival on horseback...
Last month, with London booksellers concurring, Dr. Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, nominated Trollope for first place in wartime British reading popularity (Jane Austin and the Bronte sisters tied for second place, Dickens and Thackeray for third). Nostalgia for the days when English life could be portrayed as a comedy of manners was the general, if perhaps too simple, explanation...
...House of Lords, five days before Palm Sunday, up rose the Church of England's foremost humanitarian, the Archbishop of York. Said the gentle, 70-year-old Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cyril Forster Garbett: there should be no sensational public trials of "the master war criminals Hitler and Himmler and their gang who have corrupted Germany and ordered these hideous crimes"; as soon as their identity is established "those who catch them should at once put them to death...
...Three former Regents: Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III and uncle of the boy King Simeon II; ex-Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian expansionist, who preferred making history to teaching it; Lieut. General Nikola Mikhoff, who had held the mistaken belief that the German Army was invincible...
...Bulgaria a revolutionary tribunal passed a more severe sentence. A scoffing court found Prince Cyril, ex-Regent and brother of the late Tsar Boris III, guilty of collaboration with the Axis, condemned him to death...