Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tremendous sense of humor without being flippant," is one description. Another is: "A typical Wellington, snappy at times but sociable." Oh, well, the British prefer their royals a little naughty, and Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, only daughter of the eighth Duke of Wellington, was seen risking lèese-majesté by shying melons at Prince Charles' head on his recent visit to her parents' Spanish estate. Now Charles, a childhood friend of Jane's, apparently thinks of her as more than just a girl-next-door romance, and so do many of his subjects. When dark...
...review. He was also in solitary confinement-voluntarily and indefinitely -because his testimony against alleged killers in two other trials had led to reports that mobsters were offering $50,000 to have him murdered. Geraway, 37, would probably still be in that deadend fix were it not for Steven Duke, a quixotic law professor from Yale with a penchant for seemingly hopeless cases...
...attorneys, most were reluctant to take the case. Two lawyers who were willing had to be paid a fee-an impossibility for Geraway, formerly a part-time laborer and full-time criminal with 32 felony convictions, most for passing bad checks. Then the convict read a story about Professor Duke (TIME, March...
...known to radio listeners for 32 years as Martha Deane, the relaxed, knowledgeable interview hostess on New York's WOR; of cancer; in Manhattan. A onetime newspaper reporter, Taylor took the professional name of Deane in 1941 and questioned such guests as Dwight Eisenhower, Arnold Toynbee, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and John V. Lindsay...
More entertaining is a lengthy chart showing what was happening in the other, dreary world while Dickens was working on his livelier one. While he wrote Bleak House in 1852, for example, the Duke of Wellington was dying and Wells Fargo & Co. was being founded in the U.S. There is also a listing of virtually every character Dickens created (more than 2,000, if you are counting), down to the likes of Dick, Tim Linkinwater's blind blackbird in Nicholas Nickleby. Dickens' genius for names needs no underscoring, but to see so many of them together...