Word: dom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: TIME erred in stating only Dr. Peabody remains "of the generation of schoolmasters who built the U.S. private preparatory-school system" [TIME, Feb. 8]. Seventy-nine years old, long good friend and obviously contemporary of Groton's Peabody, Rev. Dom J. Hugh Diman, O.S.B., founded distinguished St. George's School in Newport, R.I. After his conversion, and subsequent ordination as an English Benedictine, he became prior of the Benedictine monastery in Portsmouth, R.I. At that time Father Hugh founded the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory School). Portsmouth may become the first Abbey school...
...heathen" as mere window-dressing for economic and territorial conquest, the Crimson accepts then today only if they signify understanding guidance for undeveloped nations directed towards their independence and self-rule. Another twenty years passed, and the Crimson watched Woodrow Wilson evolve and put into practice his "new free dom, "its promise of social betterment. Today the Crimson supports the New Deal, foreshadowed by the Wilsonian program and so similar in its aims and accomplishments. The greatest good for the greatest number, though it may require the abandonment of American "rugged individualism," though some traditions are swept away and some...
Lucius Beebe cast his eye back over the bloody year of 1942, recalled baked lobster Savannah, soft-shell crabs, roulade of sand crabs, jugged saddle of hare, monies marinières, rack of lamb, shrimp Creole, Strasbourg foie gras, Dom Perignon champagne, pompano belle meunière, venison steak grand veneur, shad roe bonne femme, terrapin stew, escallopini of veal, oysters Rockefeller, pheasant in casserole and eggs gashouse. . . . Concluded the Lucullan Lucius: "Betcha it won't be like this next year...
...likable pretender. He is no sly neurotic, but a sobersided young man who studied politics at the Universities of Louvain and Brussels and likes to fly airplanes. His attractive young consort, the former Princess Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance, 31, daughter of the late Brazilian Pretender Dom Pedro, would well become a throne. The would-be royal couple, incidentally, have six small children who are pictorially much more effective than their father...
...Married. Dom Duarte Nuño, 35, Austrian-born-and-educated pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans and Braganza, 28, his remote cousin, great granddaughter of the late Dom Pedro II, second and last Emperor of Brazil; in Petropolis, Brazilian summer resort founded by her family. Dom Duarte has never lived in Portugal. His grandfather was Dom Miguel I, deposed as King of Portugal in 1834. Among the bride's wedding presents: a $15,000 aquamarine and platinum necklace...