Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week was the 300th anniversary of a dramatic and still controversial event, the execution of King Charles I. To mark the occasion, many speeches were made and articles written which drew a wide variety of lessons from the monarch's unhappy fate. Some held it up as a warning against socialism; others as a horrible example of what happens when conservatism thwarts the popular will. It remained, however, for famed Communist Biologist J. B. S. Haldane to produce the most memorable statement on the beheading of King Charles. In the course of a 1,200-word article...
...voice that one of its admirers once described as having "the virility of a goat and the delicacy of a flower petal." They sat patiently on the huge, circular dance floor through the preliminary stuff-Ike Carpenter's band, the Bobby True Trio, but when the main event came on they howled with delight. And when 35-year-old, toupee-topped Crooner Frankie Laine finally let them have what they wanted -his bobbing, bouncing Rosetta and By the River Sainte Marie-they were on their feet...
...help the ailing industry back on its feet over the next five years. But nobody in the industry thought hat the government fund could work a cure by itself; they hoped it would lure private capital back into the films. And he most enlightened knew that in any event the bankers would first want the moviemakers to mend their extravagant ways...
...Maynard Smith, the latest interpreter of this great event, is a canon emeritus of Gloucester Cathedral, but he writes as a historian first and an Anglican second. Henry's history has been finecombed by eminent scholars of the past generation (notably the Englishman A. F. Pollard and the American R. B. Merriman),and Canon Smith has no advantage over them in sources or in scholarship. From the vantage point of the mid-20th Century, however, he can see more ironies than they could in the Reformation carried out by bluff King...
...Romans, who first gave February 14 a special significance, celebrated the day with a dine and dance routine. The event was called the Feast of Lupercalia. After several generations, the Romans stopped the annual merry-making and called it a day, Valentine's Day to be exact, after a martyred bishop of the same name...