Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chinese in the Tub. To older Britons, Ogilvy's robust charm and self-assurance recall Alexandra's father, the Duke of Kent, who was killed in a wartime plane crash when she was five. Left with a lessthan-princely income, the duke's widow, handsome, Greek-born Princess Marina, raised her children modestly. "Puddy," as her daughter is still known to intimates, was the first royal princess to attend boarding school, later took up nursing at a children's hospital. The slim, green-eyed Maid of Kent tickled Londoners by wearing her mother's hand...
...arrived, had saved enough to open a speakeasy opposite the Metropolitan Opera House. A drugstore was his front, but the number of customers who reeled out onto Seventh Avenue after stopping in to fill "prescriptions" invited too many raids. In 1925 Bleeck opened less conspicuously situated quarters behind a Greek coffee stand in a shabby building alongside the Trib...
Jerome v. Augustine. Scriptural critics have never had an easy time of it. In A.D. 403, St. Jerome was sharply criticized by St. Augustine of Hippo for introducing new phrasings into his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate. A critical edition of the New Testament's Greek text by the Renaissance Humanist Erasmus was put on Rome's Index of Forbidden Books. With ecclesiastical approval, French police destroyed the scholarly writings of Father Richard Simon, the 17th century's best Biblical critic...
Jupiter's eye, and that of the audience, is constantly on Alkmena, and the highly appealing Miss Wolff richly rewards the attention. Taking full advantage of the humorous potential of ancient Greek characters conversing in mid-twentieth century American language, she is bewitching, beguiling and alluring, and altogether worthy of a god's love...
Following a high pageantry usually experienced only at Commencement, President Pusey transferred the Lowell tippit, a Master's traditional sash of authority, from Perkins' shoulder to that of his successor, Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin. With this gesture, the 23 years of the Perkinsian Age ended and Lowell's third Mastership began...