Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With six minutes left in last night's contest, it looked like there would be no need for Dressler's heroics. Harvard held a whopping 69-58 lead, and Dartmouth's two big men -- John Duke and Gunnar Malm -- had fouled...
Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare's sour comedies. It is a play about honor that is marked by the lack of it: the lovers are mostly lechers, and purity is mocked as pretense. Concerned about the state of public morals, the Duke of Vienna selects Angelo, a man of seemingly flinty virtues, to take full power over the state. He enforces the laws with undeviating severity while the Duke masquerades as a lowly friar. In a fury of purity, Angelo orders a young gentleman, Claudio, to be executed for fornication. Claudio's sister Isabella, a novice...
...POPULAR DUKE ELLINGTON (RCA Victor). "Popular" refers not only to the Duke but in this instance to these compositions that will forever be the background music of the '20s, '30s and '40s-classics like Sophisticated Lady, Solitude, I Got It Bad and Take the "A" Train. The Duke's piano is smoothly articulate and the new performances by his virtuoso orchestra are moody and melting...
Room 1415, the Presidential Suite, is occupied by Michael Rennie and Merle Oberon, the Duke and Duchess of Croydon, who have a bloody mess on their hands. The duke, a bit of a dipso, kills a small boy while driving drunk. The duchess is a Lady Macbeth in mink who fears that a scandal will stall her husband's diplomatic career and persuades him to step on the gas so he won't have to stand up in court. A little petrol does not clear them of the deed, however. Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts...
Room 1451 is occupied by Karl Maiden, a coxcomical klepto whose life is a dreary succession of practically empty wallets ("It's those damn credit cards!") until one day he sidles into the duke's suite and stumbles out with 1) a face that seems to have glimpsed the beatific vision, and 2) an attache case that contains the blackmail payments...