Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sparked by Guest Speaker Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad,* a bearded, posturing professional pundit, the famed old Oxford Union voted 275 to 153 "that under no circumstances will we fight for King and Country." When graduate members, led by Winston Churchill's choleric son Randolph, tried to expunge this from the record, they were swamped 750 to 138. In his history of World War II, Winston Churchill somberly wrote: "It was easy to laugh off such an episode in England, but in Germany, in Russia, in Italy, in Japan, the idea of a decadent, degenerate Britain took deep root...
...Cyril Ritchard, an import from England, who plays Sparkish the fop, achieves a success of a different kind. Sparkish could turn out no more than a fop, an elaborately dressed, self-conscious waver of lace handkerchiefs, but Mr. Ritchard manages by his impressive diction and equally impressive frame to give real color to Wycherley's essentially colorless character. His Sparkish is an excellent example of how a really fine actor can make something out of almost nothing...
This week, as the 1,000 educators met, the Denver controversy still smoldered. A local businessman named-Cyril Reed announced that he was organizing a Committee for the Improvement of the Denver Public Schools. Its purpose: war against general education, a return to more concentrated teaching of the traditional basic subjects, which he and his group are convinced that Denver's schools neglect, no matter what else twig-bending Superintendent Oberholtzer and his teachers may achieve...
...Artificer Ed Buckingham was getting congratulations on his 32nd birthday. Navy Yard Surveyor Roy Stevens had just finished shaving. Leading Seaman Fred Henley got his supper early so that he could report for duty. He started up the conning tower to join the Truculent's bearded commander, Lieut. Cyril Philip Bowers (30), and three other young officers. Later Henley described what happened...
Disturbed by talk that dramatic gains are being made by the Roman Catholic Church in England, the Most Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett, Anglican Archbishop of York, had his say on the subject in his monthly diocesan letter, published last week...