Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Del Monte Went Navy...
...edition of TIME, you have an article entitled "The Duke's Heaven," in which I figure quite prominently. ... I would like to correct one great error. . . . The idea of turning Del Monte into a postgraduate school for naval officers originated entirely with the naval authorities and the matter came to me without any direct or indirect promotion. Incidentally, it is not a "Little Annapolis." Del Monte was selected only after the most careful survey of innumerable sites in various parts of the country...
...MORSE Del Monte, Calif...
Last winter, sure that the time had come to open up a school, he started converting a country club he bought four years ago at Shawnee, Del. into a schoolhouse. The protests of his neighbors at the flossy resort were drowned in a noisy rush of students ready to pay $85 for a week of Waring's lessons. What the students got was a Waring extravaganza...
...best part of the Memoir is a critical account of the comfortable Quaker society of Wilmington, Del., where young Canby grew up at the end of the century. He describes this setting nostalgically-the leafy interpenetration of country and town, the sense of neighborhoods, the wide lawns, iron stags and idiosyncratic architecture. As for the way people lived, he says: "I believe that there were values in that period called the nineties and scandalously misdescribed in current films and novels, which were as worthy (greatness aside) as any cultural period has ever developed, and which are now lost, perhaps irrevocably...