Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Have your child baptized early, the vicar of St. Saviour's in Walthamstow, England urged his parishioners. The Rev. Cyril W. Nye, 61, was not voicing concern about the little ones tossing in limbo; it was their tossing in his arms that bothered him. Said he: "Please, please try to bring your children along before they are two months old. Babies of six months and over are uncommonly awkward to handle. When the baptismal water is poured over their heads, they react strongly and try to get away . . . That can be quite tricky with a healthy, struggling infant...
...current production is so alive largely because Director Cyril Ritchard makes no effort to give it meaning, but plays it entirely for farce. With the help of Barry Jones. Tamara Geva, Dorothy Sands and others, what seems when read a forebreath of Shaw's imposing Heartbreak House seems on the stage to prefigure You Can't Take It With...
...series of bickerings that have kept Hindu and Moslem in a state of near-war ever since the British raj departed in 1947. And like most feuds between India and Pakistan, its roots reached back to partition-to the ingenious, twisting line drawn by Britain's Sir Cyril (later Lord) Radcliffe to divide India (pop. 350 million) from the widely separated halves of the Dominion of Pakistan: East Bengal (pop. 42 million), in the steamy Ganges Delta, and West Pakistan (pop. 33-5 million), a rain-starved country bigger than Texas. The Radcliffe line roughly separated Hindu from Moslem...
Television Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Cyril Ritchard...
Teetotalitaricm Edict. One evening last year, at the house of a favorite drinking companion-British Vice Consul Cyril Ousman-a third son of Ibn Saud's got tight and began making passes at a house guest from England. Ousman threw the young prince out. Next day, still drunk and blind with rage, the prince showed up, demanding the girl for his private collection. Once again Ousman tried to throw him out. The prince drew a pistol and began firing. The vice consul was killed, his wife wounded...