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...that wandered unannounced from the turmoil of Watling Street to make her home in his church. At the fourth try the rector interceded. "The cat must stay," he said. "She has chosen our church, and she must remain." Faith took up residence in his rectory. Years of halcyon days followed when Faith would recline in proprietary ease in St. Augustine's carpeted pews, rubbing languorously against the ankles of parishioners dropping in for midday prayer. At services she would sit in quiet dignity at the rector's feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bravest | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...some, "Private Lives" may be purely period stuff; to others--if so interested a point in Noel Coward's rather halcyon development. To the more romantically inclined, it may seem the gay picture of "la vie de joie"; to the socially bent, a milestone of that smooth highway on which the London Smart Set zipped along in its multipowered Stutz, bound for decay. But dated or not natural or textual, the production at the Colonial is a combination of some of this century's smoothest dialogue, shouted, laughed, cried, and whispered by something rare in the theatrical world an acres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

...beer, has, in our opinion, failed to deal with a question which is destined to present one of the most controversial issues of the postwar world. To wit: Will the returning G.I. be able to maintain the same balance of power in his home that he enjoyed in the halcyon days, or will the female of the species assert herself and declare the "old order" relegated to the limbo of nostalgic memories? . . . Upon settlement of this question rests the stability of the state and the determination of whether G.I. Joe is to enjoy the freedoms he fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...notoriously ragged weekend marches to Wellesley and the Statier are due to pick up when whites are broken out and tanned faces take their place in the sun. Practicing for those halcyon days to come, Giangrasso prowled the range unfettered at Eunice's Wellesley tea dance, and D.V. Weir entertained a titian-haired 5 by 5. Even Warner's happy return was shadowed by finding his roommates estranged, of all things, by a woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/7/1944 | See Source »

With casualties in every field, Harvard's offerings for the spring term present a problem to all but the dilettante. Well-recommended courses are still being given, but the number in each subject is greatly reduced from the halcyon days of the thick, red-covered catalogue. Anyone following a strictly defined line of study is faced with a paucity of courses which may force him into individual research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course Reductions in Spring Term Show Effect of War | 2/4/1944 | See Source »

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