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...Revenger's Tragedy, by Cyril Tourneur, was the first of the plays read. The second was "Gammer Gurton's Needle," written as for a student production by "S", a student at Cambridge in the fifteenth century, whose full name has been lost to posterity...
Said Fellow Conductor Sir Hamilton Harty: "He is understood to be very absent-minded." Said Fellow Conductor Sir Adrian Boult: "We musicians are all a bit absent-minded." Said BBC Television Orchestra Player Cyril Clark: "... A very absent-minded and dreamy individual." Said his wife, Sidonie Goossens, sister of Cincinnati Conductor Eugene Goossens: "He is absent-minded." Impressed by the weight of evidence, Defendant Greenbaum added his own tuppennyworth: "My friends tell me I am very absent-minded...
Died. Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, 62, pretender to the non-existent Russian throne, first cousin of Russia's late Tsar Nicholas II; of blood poisoning; in Neuilly, France. A convivial royal liberal, Grand Duke Cyril flitted through Europe's night life, married a divorced woman, the Grand Duchess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt (an offense for which he was temporarily banished from Russia). In the Russo-Japanese War he was blown up on the Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur. When the 1917 Revolution began, he placed himself and his regiment at the service of the Duma, fled when Kerensky...
...Thomas Cyril Quirk, Watertown, Massachusetts--Watertown High School...
Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of the University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...