Word: cyril
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...saloons and lounges. Decks and rails that had been pitted with the initials of some of the 765,000 troops the Queen had carried in wartime were scraped smooth once more. Spick & span in new uniforms, many of her old crewmen were back to serve again under jovial Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, the Queen Mary's chief officer...
...beyond the capacities of any of our repertory companies. There is very little lacking in the Gielgud production. After a reasonably perfect rendering of "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Boston and New York, the company was enlarged for the present, more ambitions work. The chief addition is Cyril Ritchard, who plays Tattle, described in the program as "a half-witted bean, vain of his amours, yet valuing himself for secrecy." Favored with the most rewarding role, Ritchard struts about, using always the right high-pitched tone and the right decadent sweep of his silk handkerchief...
Last week an answer came from a high quarter: England's second-ranking prelate, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. Wrote the 72-year-old Archbishop in his new book, The Claims of the Church of England: There is at present a "tendency towards totalitarianism in the State. The State increasingly exercises control over every department of the life of the community. It is not likely that the Church will escape from this movement. Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible...
...first five. True, two members of the Labor Cabinet (Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, Food Minister John Strachey) wear the black-&-blue old school tie, and are proud of it. So do six Labor and 57 other M.P.s, such left-wing literati as Cyril Connolly and George Orwell. But many a Briton was finding it hard last week to visualize Eton in a socialist future...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, 72, hard-bitten onetime chief of the British Imperial General Staff, outstanding tactician of World War I, a great believer in mechanized, mobile warfare; in Lymington, Hants, England...