Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SALVATION OF Pisco GABAR-Geoffrey Household - Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Rogue Male, twelve short stories as pungent as good Maugham, with at least one staggering piece of condensation: " 'I blame nobody,' said Gabar. 'We are animals. Will you have a drink...
Also last week came the annual report of the Public Morality Council, signed by its chairman, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of London, 52, an athletic, old-school-tie moralist with a wife and six sons whom he calls his "seven assets." P. M. C. was highly alarmed about "importuning in the streets" from noon until dawn in the Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers...
...headmasterships. Drawing most of its material from brilliant BMOC's (big men on campus) who graduated here, the Dean's Office is the middle link in the oft-repeated student council to "baby" dean to headmaster circuit. E. Francis Bowditch '33, now headmaster of the Park School of Indianapolis, Geoffrey W. Lewis, head of Browne and Nichol's, and Francis Parkman '18, headmaster of St. Marks, are but a few of those now landed in comfortable prep school berths who started at University...
...sleep and the cat didn't know what to make of it." Said he: "It was all due to my Southern charm." From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare to his father, Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion...
From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon...