Word: cyrillic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarkable career to this point and, although he is now 60, he may or may not have a yet more remarkable career ahead of him. He comes of French stock. His grandfather, Constantino Cyril Desiré Pinchot, quit France "because of political beliefs. . . ." Gifford, born in Connecticut in 1865, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and to Yale College, where he was graduated in 1889. Out of college he went to France, studied forestry at Nancy, practiced it in the Alps and the Vosges. By 1891 he was back and doing "the first systematic forestry work ever done...
...Never did she play better. There are few leading actors so convincingly attractive as Mr. Young and Mr. Matthews. Of its type this entertainment has not been equaled this season, nor indeed since the same playwright's Aren't We All so agreeably occupied the time of Cyril Maude...
...Cyril Maude is the star and gives much the same performance as he did in Aren't We All, the delightful comedy which These Charming People vainly tries to reproduce. Mr. Maude has slighter material and therefore acts harder, a somewhat obvious device. Better even than he, was Edna Best. She is a young Englishwoman here for the first time. She is unorthodox, vaguely reminiscent of the music halls, and amazingly important in a steadily unimportant evening...
...daily recently referred to the "channel-swimming game," thereby placing this activity in the same category with such recognized diversions as "the advertising game," "the cloak-and-suit game," etc. Last week three swimmers attempted to traverse the angry scar of seas between Calais and Dover-Lieut. Col. Bernard Cyril Freyberg, V. C., Mile. Jeanne Sion, Miss Lillian Harrison. Last week's aspirants were veteran swimmers; all, after tremendous exertions, failed...
...final round, Hagen suave but erratic, Diegel now scowling but still accurate. Final scores: Diegel 69 75 73 78-295 Mike Brady 72 75 76 74-297 Hagen 71 74 76 80-301 Andrew Kay* 71 77 75 78-301 Willie Macfarlane 74 78 79 73-304 Cyril Walker...