Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Alfred was confronted with deadlines when he wrote poetry for a magazine at the age of 18. "And I always put everything off untill the night before --as someone does with a term theme," he said. "Maybe that's why I don't care much for the poetry when...
"But I could never get into it because I don't like the guy. Maybe it's because I just can't understand him," he said.
Runways with Pigs. Raised on an Iowa farm, Arkfeld was ordained in 1943 in the Society of the Divine Word, the worldwide mission order founded in Germany in 1875. Five years later he was consecrated a bishop in Chicago, was assigned that same year to war-ravaged Wewak, where bombs...
Brains & Money. Though the growing company needed Reiner's inventive genius and Klaus's gift for selling, the partners haggled constantly about how to run the business. ''All of a sudden," says Klaus, "we found we couldn't afford that luxury. What we needed was...
Gentlemen Don't Wait. Biographer West (the wife of British Historian-Diplomat Harold Nicolson) has skillfully woven Mademoiselle's figure, with her private ardors and ironies, into the larger tapestry of the history, manners, and morals of Bourbon France. Contemporary readers are likely to be more startled by...