Word: cyril
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...more self-conscious than the Austro-Hungarian colony in the U. S. are the White Russians. Some 12,000 of them pine for restoration of a Tsar in the person of Grand Duke Vladimir, son of Grand Duke Cyril. The Whites boast a few great and a few notorious names-Sergei Koussevitzky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Sikorsky, Prince Matchabelli, Vadim Makaroff, the marrying Mdivanis. Mostly they have spent the last 22 years toasting the old days. Though White legitimists protest that they would support a Tsar only if he were called back by the people of Russia, and though the Soviet...
...Blount, who took orders from the Army's General the Viscount Gort; 2) Advanced Striking Force under Vice Marshal Patrick Playfair, who was responsible to R. A. F. headquarters in London. Last week all were united under Air Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, responsible only to Sir Cyril Newall, Britain's air chief...
...Christmas, kolendy and all. Parent and producer of this ceremony (from WJR, Detroit) was young Father Edward Majeske, director of the Detroit Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Organists Guild, and famed interpreter of Polish liturgical music. His cast: 24 youths of the Schola Cantorum of the Polish seminary of S. S. Cyril & Methodius. Their best-known kolenda, Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy, in Father Majeske's translation...
...Cyril Gerard Holland, vicar of Ewell, Surrey, deplored such chauvinist talk. Said he: "Let us at least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...
Last June Sir Cyril wrote a pregnant sentence which in all candor he would probably admit is the real reason for Great Britain's fighting Germany: "Our responsibility is the defense of a great Empire." Britain does not want to attack; she wants to defend. But if the issue is joined, she must attack or lose, because aerial warfare cannot be won on the defensive. That Sir Cyril and his associates fully realize this is indicated by the nature of the Force they have built...