Word: fletcherizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unnecessary biased and viciously inaccurate. The snide treatment of the remarks of professors Aiken and Marne in the report of last night's peace Conference was an utterly uncalled-for distortion of both the form and the sense of those remarks. The complete, and apparently deliberate misconstruction of Prof. Fletcher's comments bore no vestige of either accuracy or integrity...
Charles IV sent José Jaudenes Nebot, a comisario de los ejércitos, or army quartermaster, to Washington on a diplomatic mission. There he met and married British Aristocrat Mathilde Stoughton Fletcher. They returned to Spain in 1812, and Jose died that year. Mathilde followed 24 years later. To their children they left an enormous U.S. estate. Remittances were sent from the States for 25 years, then stopped. Why, no one quite knew...
Louis McCagg will be at stroke, George Gifford at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steven Hedberg at five, Clem Despard at four, Bill Bliss at three, Doug Fletcher at two, and Bob Webb in the bow. The coxswain is Warren Clark...
Professor Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological Seminary played with the topic: "New Social forces in the World." When drawn out in the following discussion period, he stated that the war now shaping up has aspects of a class war, and that the U. S. is prone to talk of liberty, but not "justice." Nothing, he declared, would be as indecent as a deliberate war on any nation that might attack...
Even Caliban, the character credited with representing man's base instincts, is translated "optimistically." As excellently played by Robert Fletcher, the deformed beast becomes neither repulsive nor depressing. His Caliban would be at home in Alice's Wonderland, or in any child's wonderland, for that matter. Though humorous throughout, Mr. Fletcher does not cheapen his character with the low comedy possibilities offered him. He is grotesque, yet wholesome; funny, but still moving and touching when need...