Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House and Newton, as Business Manager; Joseph H. Sharlitt '45, of Kirkland House and Shaker Heights. Ohio, as Editorial Chairman; Shane E. Riorden '46, of Lowell House and Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., as Executive Editor; Myron Stein '46, of Adams house and Lawrence, E. I., as Advertising Manager; and Ernest L. Bell '49, of Eliot House and Keene, N. H., as Photographic Chairman...
Vindictive. In Toronto, Conductor Sir Ernest MacMillan rummaged through some old scores, found that rats had chewed up one: The Pied Piper of Hamelin...
...TOLSTOY (836 pp.) - Ernest J. Simmons-Little, Brown...
...firsthand experience of war, which Ernest Hemingway has called indispensable to the greatest writers, awaited Tolstoy at the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. He commanded a battery of guns at the Fourth Bastion, most exposed point in the city's defenses. Tolstoy wrote the first of his Sevastopol Sketches in a dugout under bombardment. At first he liked the whole thing: "The constant charm of danger, observing the soldiers . . . are so agreeable that I do not wish to leave here. . . ." But before the siege was over he changed his mind. Though he hated physical violence, he beat...
When the King and his coach had gone, the House of Commons got down to what was really on its mind: the "revolt" [strictly verbal] of Labor backbenchers, led by Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg, who think Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's policy too anti-Russian. Said Driberg: "I must warn the Foreign Secretary that . . . the people of this country will certainly not follow him to war now or in five years' time against Soviet Russia in partnership with the barbaric thugs of Detroit or the narrow imperialists of Washington or Wall Street...