Word: edmonds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freckled, 33-year-old spinster, with a big nose and intense brown eyes, felt drawn to Mohandas Gandhi after reading a book about him. She was Madeline Slade, daughter of British Admiral Sir Edmond Slade. She left England to join Gandhi, became his personal attendant, took the name of Miraben (Sister Mira) from the Rajput Princess Mira who abandoned all to follow the Hindu god Krishna. Miraben was jailed twice for her part in the civil disobedience movement...
Your otherwise excellent story on Jap surrenders-"A Bubble Bursts" [TIME, Sept. 10]-was dead wrong on one point. Yamashita did not surrender to General Wainwright but to Major General Edmond H. Leavey, Chief of Staff of the Army Forces in the Western Pacific, who was acting for Lieut. General W. D. ("Fat") Styer, commanding general AFWESPAC...
...Office is primarily for the College, Teele stated. Most of the graduate schools have their own placement offices, he said, indicating the Business School's Office, run by Dean Edmond F. Wright, as a primary example...
...literary allusion that no Frenchman applied to the bluff of a weak France trying to carry out a strong-arm foreign policy was a line from Edmond Rostand's Chantecler: "Quand le paon n'est pas là, le dindon fait la roue-When the peacock is away, the turkey spreads his tail...
Walter Amory, Needham; Walter A. Bates, Wadsworth, Ohio; Wayne N. Beasley, Everett; William C. Brengle, New York City; Edward J. Browning, Norwich, Connecticut; Edmond A. Chastagner, New York City; Sherman H. Clark, Portland, Oregon; Richard J. Creedon, Fords, New Jersey; Charles R. Dean, Kalamazoo; Gerald R. Dennison, West Somerville...