Word: fabianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roscoe" for "gallantly persisting in her career despite a total inability to act." In Boston last week, as Actress Taylor was boarding a plane for Hollywood, a delegation of Poonsters marched up with a small brass band. This time, they announced, the Lampoon was giving her the "Fabian Fall Award" as the actress who had "shown the most improvement as a result of a previous receipt of the 'Roscoe.' " Actress Taylor accepted a 25-lb. bronze bust. "This is very kind of you young men," she said...
Movie star Elizabeth Taylor appeared to be out of danger last night from CRIMSON charges of receiving stolen property. The property involved was a bronze bust of Fabian Fall '10, former CRIMSON president, stolen from the CRIMSON building and presented to the actress by the Lampoon...
...apparently stole the bronze statue from the CRIMSON early this week. This morning they presented it to Miss Taylor at Logan Airport, at the same time naming her the actress who has shown the "greatest improvement" as a result of receiving the "Roscoe." The new award was called "the Fabian Fall Award...
Conspirator Fabian von Schlabrendorff testified that he had been chained to a bed on the fourth floor of the notorious Prinz Albrechstrasse headquarters of the Reich Security Office. His body was stretched with mechanical devices, screws were driven into his thighs and thumbs. An SS man told him: "It has lasted a long time for the little admiral [Canaris]." Schlabrendorff asked the SS man if he wasn't sickened by his job. The shrugging reply: "We get a bonus of schnapps and blutwurst...
Britain's Fabian Society, the little core of intellectuals who began back in 1884 to preach the inevitability of socialism without revolution, finally got around to choosing a new president. The choice: Sir Stafford Cripps, now in Switzerland un der treatment for a spinal ailment. He succeeds his aunt, the late Beatrice Webb, the society's first and only other president, who died...