Word: cyril
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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...
...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...
...newsmen's chief gripe has been that stories cleared elsewhere, published, and therefore no longer involved in "military security" still could not be sent from SHAEF. Last week, SHAEF meted out the strongest punishment since D-day to a censorship violator: it canceled the credentials of BBC Correspondent Cyril Ray, who had an eleven-hour "scoop" on one story by simply bypassing censorship...