Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STRAIT AND NARROW (384 pp.)-Geoffrey Cotterell-Lippincott...
...safety's sake, Captain Charles R. Pilcher of the liner Rangitoto offered to lower a lifeboat when he learned that a passenger, the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, 63, Archbishop of Canterbury, wanted to go ashore in Panama and planned to leave the ship via the jouncing boarding ladder. The sure-footed prelate declined the lifeboat, and when he learned that the captain was partially worried about the ship's safety record, dashed off a limerick for the occasion...
Early in 1950, the London Economist's Geoffrey Crowther, a footloose editor with a nose for news, made his annual inspection trip of U.S. industry. "I came here expecting to see a boom," he said, "but nothing I had read prepared me for this. The very air smells of boom. For the firsttime, the U.S. is beginning to smell like 1929 again...
...London's Architectural Review, British Scholar Geoffrey Grigson sets out to make a case for three such painters, all born in 1741: Henry Fuseli, John Henry Mortimer, and James Barry. "They share," Grigson says, "in the sense of turmoil, of the black and red river, of the black and cavernous and jagged abyss . . ." In plainer language, all three painted more or less high-toned horror pictures...
...Vienna's Quadripartite Control Council, which hitherto had been considered a model of four-power cooperation, American High Commissioner Lieut. General Geoffrey Keyes produced a sheaf of evidence that the Red army had instigated and helped the riots. Russian Deputy Commissioner Lieut. General G. K. Tsinev huffed & puffed about "slanderous allegations," refused assurances demanded by Keyes that the Reds would not do it again. Next day, the Communists announced that, unless the government rescinded its wage-price edict, they would call a general strike this week...