Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fisher, George Hibbard, Edward Hoffman, Andy McCullough, James A. Robinson, Russell Stannard. Guards: James Aldrich, Warren Carstensen, John Comer, John Corrigan, Rollo Fisher, George George, Gerald Gettschalk, William Hornbeck, Charles Hubbard, Charles Kidner, Gilbert King, Thaddeus Mroz, Sidney Smith, William Ward, John Zinkow, Charles Van Pelt. Centres: John H. Dyer, Jack Fisher, Arthur Lawson, Austin Mason, Bruce Smart, George Terrien, Frederick Woodruff, Richard Anderson. Blocking backs: Lloyd Anderson, Harvey Blanchard, Philip Drake, Howard Gleason, Fairfield Goodale, Joseph Horgan, Walter Kamp, George Waters. Wingbacks: Sam Carr, Charles Cawley, Donald Cole, James Gallagher, Saul Marias, Gershon Ross, Don Richards, Andy Welch. Tailbacks...
...sepoys-see cut, p. 28). They seized Moslems, whose religion forbids contact with pork, and sewed them into pig skins before killing them. They tied some rebellious sepoys to the muzzles of cannon, and then fired the cannon. As late as 1919, at Amritsar, British General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer ordered his troops to disperse a prohibited meeting of unarmed Indians by firing into the crowd; the volley killed...
...Richard Dyer-Bennet, Lute Singer (Keynote album). Minstrelsy by a light-voiced youngster (TIME, Oct. 13), ranging from the 17th-Century Golden Vanity to a current Anzac favorite, The Swagman (or Waltzing Matilda...
...heard this week on U.S. airwaves. The twangs came from an instrument which legend says was invented by a son of Methuselah-the lute, an instrument resembling an archaic mandolin. Rare too was the young lutanist who plunk-a-plunked and sang ballads on an NBC Sunday sustainer. Richard Dyer-Bennet, 28-year-old minstrel, is probably the only U.S. radio entertainer listed in Burke's Peerage...
...Richard Dyer-Bennet got into Burke's by being related to a British baronet, Sir John Dyer. He got into lute-playing less simply. Although born in England, he had a U.S. mother, chose to become a U.S. citizen on his 21st birthday, went to the University of California. There he met a voice teacher who remodeled his youthful tenor and told him of a great Swedish minstrel named Sven Scholander. When Dyer-Bennet inherited $500, he hotfooted to Sweden, learned the Swedish lute and some balladeering tricks. He was just in time: within a year, Scholander...