Word: geoffrey
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Defense Counsel Geoffrey Robertson defended Kirkup's poem as "a genuine expression of how one man came to love God . . . a devotional poem by a gifted poet," but the jury was not impressed. By a vote of 10 to 2, it convicted both Lemon and Gay News. The judge praised the jury for its "moral courage" and imposed fines of $1,700 on the paper and $850 on the editor...
...gone too far. Turner's executive assistant, two special assistants, his speechwriter and his staff schedulemakers are all on active Navy duty. His public affairs chief is a retired Navy captain. In what even an aide says was a mistake, Turner brought in his son Geoffrey, 29, a Navy lieutenant, to work temporarily at the CIA until he enters the Naval Defense Intelligence School in Monterey, Calif., this fall. Turner points out that Geoffrey is not replacing anyone at the CIA and gets only his regular Navy pay. The admiral sees the assignment as a chance "to have...
...woman show on Broadway. And so it finally happened in a one-night benefit replete with hoops and hoopla and costumes from South Pacific, Gypsy and, of course, Hello, Dolly! Briefly joining the high jinks onstage were the likes of Yul Brynner, Burgess Meredith, Joel Grey and Geoffrey Holder-who kicked up their heels in an all-male chorus line. When it was over, Ethel, 68, sighed, "Fm on Cloud Nine," and Mary. 63, was still savoring the roars of the audience. "It was like we had hit twelve home runs at Yankee Stadium." Naturally there is talk about repeating...
Much is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's life, much lost. He was a vintner's son who rose (through cleverness and, no doubt, the ability to entertain highborn ladies with after-dinner recitals) to become a government official, courtier and diplomat under three successive monarchs - Edward II, Edward III and Richard II. He was at least briefly a soldier, and while fighting in France under the Black Prince, he was captured, then ransomed for ?16. The smallness of this sum is a favorite joke among Chaucerians, but it amounts to $3,840 in modern terms, by Gardner...
Arnold and two other Harvard students, Jeffrey Ferris '77 and Geoffrey Wisner '80 are the only undergraduates who have refused to post the $100 bail...