Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nightclub. In Freetown's magnificent harbor, gaily painted paddle boats carrying names like God Never Hurries staged a regatta. To the beat of tom-toms, 150 bare-breasted girls snaked past Sierra Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and his guests of honor: Britain's Duke of Kent, Liberia's William Tubman, Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, U.S. Special Representative Thurgood Marshall. At midnight some 15,000 celebrators jammed Freetown's stadium, sang the hymn Lead, Kindly Light, watched as spotlights dimmed on the Union Jack atop the flagpole, cheered ten seconds...
...Duke of Wellington...
...martial, and last week Eton's Headmaster, Robert Birley, produced his own version. After Waterloo, according to Birley, Wellington visited his old house at Eton, where boarders in his day had been looked after by a Mrs. Naylor. Asking to see a stream in the garden, the Iron Duke explained : "I really think I learned my spirit of adventure jumping over the big black ditch at the bottom of Mrs. Naylor's garden...
...other principals are somewhat less polished. To Patience Joan Corbett brought a voice that Miss Russell would categorize as "English--pleasant, pure, and utterly sexless." The stock part of the yearning tenor Gilbert has split into two roles, a comic duke and a second poet--this one Swinburne. (One of the chief technical flaws of Patience is W.S.G.'s halfhearted attempts to tinker with a successful and standard formula; the only result is a fragmentation of the familiar.) As the duke, Stephen A. Barre has a few good gestures and not much of a voice. The voice of the "Idyllic...
...better than last year," said Coach land. There is only one from last year's team, and end of the trip to Duke this year's first seven formed four strokes better position than last year's. once seems to be a limiting now; there are three sophomore and three juniors...