Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smile I could feel in my hip pocket." The lady had a voice "that dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting out of bed." Dinner "tasted like a discarded mailbag." Since Detective Marlowe was acceptable to brows of every altitude, including snobbish Critic Edmund (Axel's Castle) Wilson, even parboiled eggheads could carry Chandler's thrillers under their arms without resorting to plain wrappers...
...born Arminius Vambery, who disguised himself as a dervish in 1863 and traveled for ten months through Central Asia; American Januarius MacGahan, the special correspondent of the New York Herald, who dodged both Cossacks and Turkoman cavalry in his daring 1873 coverage of the Russian conquest of Khiva; Irishman Edmund O'Donovan, representing the London Daily News, who was simultaneously held prisoner and elected prince by the Tekke tribesmen of desolate Merv. Said O'Donovan: "It is well worth while to have lived among the Tekkes to know the ecstatic delight of parting company with them...
Organist Lois Pardue and a string ensemble conducted by Kalman Novak will play works of Bach, Aaron Copeland, Edmund Haines, Handel, Henry Purcell and Walter Piston...
...clack. She needed Roger Williams' publishing savvy while she gathered some of her own. And she shared his liberal journalistic approach. Old Guy would have been shocked at some of the changes gradually wrought in his empire. Not long after his death, the Gannett papers endorsed a Democrat-Edmund S. Muskie, running for Governor. Editing tightened: no longer was it considered news when a Portland merchant laid fresh bricks over the old store front. The papers' rock-bound horizons expanded; one Portland staffer went to India on a fellowship, another to France...
Sunken Empire. Author Magnus, biographer of Edmund Burke, Gladstone and Walter Raleigh, has painted in Kitchener the picture of a man as oldfashioned, absurd and honorable as a Royal Academy portrait. It was probably with some relief that Kitchener's colleagues learned that the Royal Navy cruiser H.M.S. Hampshire hit a German mine in the North Sea in 1916 and was lost with nearly all hands. Yet it was as if an empire had sunk with Kitchener...