Word: duns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beau Wellington," she found tedious, goodhearted, generous. But when the duke spurned her dun ("Publish and be damned"), he too met a different kind of Waterloo. "His Grace," spits Harriette, ". . . has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published . . . When Wellington sends the ungentle hint to my publisher, of hanging me, beautiful, adored and adorable me, on whom he had so often hung! Alors je pends la tête! . . . Good-bye to ye, old Bombastes Furioso." Then she proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house...
Last week the West Missouri diocese voted Bishop Welles his proposed commission, though there were some tilted eyebrows at the papish smell of the scheme. In Washington, B.C., Bishop Angus Dun of the National Cathedral was cool and cautious: "I would say that in the main prayerbook tradition, the word 'saint' is not attached to particularly selected individuals, but, as in the New Testament, to the community of those set apart by the calling...
...have nothing to say. I paint like a carpenter who saws wood, like a blacksmith who hammers iron." Buffet won the prestigious Critics Award when he was only 20, and his reputation has risen ever since. Today he turns out oils, painted in depressing greys, black, drab greens and dun brown at a rate even a house painter would envy. As rapidly as he paints them, collectors snap them up, at prices ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 each...
Next morning at 8, the President, a road-racer's gleam in his eye, took the wheel again and sped away through dun-colored hills. Official chauffeurs in the convoy crossed themselves and followed. But it was ideal driving: troops patrolled the highway (particularly guarding bridges) and kept all other traffic backed up at side roads...
Lovett explained that he and the other scheduled speakers were happy to cancel their engagements in favor of the Buttrick series. Lovett, as a member of the Board of Preachers, has previously appeared at Memorial Church twice a year. He will still preach this fall. According to Pusey, Dun agreed that the proposed pre-Lenten series by Buttrack was well worth the change in plan...