Word: englands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading (1918-19), the fabulous genius of finance and the law who rose from cabin boy to England's Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India. Before he became Ambassador Lord Reading had served his country well in the U.S. The story goes that he asked the House of Morgan for a billion dollars in war credits. "I'll give you half that," said J. P. Morgan...
...holy Matrimony" or consigned to the grave with its "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." All this year the Anglican Communion (including the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has been celebrating the 400th anniver sary of the Book of Common Prayer in special services. Last week, in Manhat tan's huge French Gothic Cathedral...
...place of a plot, The Lonely has a situation. Flak-happy Liberator Pilot Jerry Wright takes a two-week leave from his air base in England and goes off to Scotland with Patches, a mousy, grey-eyed little WAAF. After a week of shacking up in the Loch Lomond country, Jerry finds himself desperately in love with Patches, desperately out of love with his "healthily beautiful, loving, young, vigorous, clear-eyed, innocent, sexless and inexperienced" fiancee back on Long Island.To straighten out this situation and break his engagement in a face-to-face encounter, he hops the Atlantic without papers...
...book is divided according to six liturgical seasons-Advent, Christmastide, Septuagesima, Lent, Paschaltide and Time after Pentecost. Advent, writes Mrs. Berger, is the time to begin to "stir up your plum puddings," which were sometimes regarded as "popish" puddings in Cromwell's 17th Century England. In Advent comes St. Nicholas' Day (Dec. 6)-the time for eating a spiced Dutch cookie called "Speculatius." St. Nicholas' Eve is the time for drinking "Bishop's Wine." (To a bottle of claret, add four inches of stick cinnamon, six cloves, simmer about five minutes and serve...
Standing up, Miss Norden looks like a monument to the dress industry; but her more becoming pose is lying down. England's new matinee idol, Kieron Moore, has an unusual change-of-pace style of acting. He gives the effect of a meandering block of dispossessed concrete that suddenly pauses and sparkles whenever an actress appears on the scene. Saints and Sinners allows the Abbey Players to have a histrionic field day in the Irish countryside...