Word: highland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...André Gide Hamlet. ("A moving experience," reported the New York Times's Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades and dancing in West Princes Street Gardens, below Edinburgh Castle...
...queen next month). She will also have more freedom from family control on such matters as staying out late, wearing makeup, dressing smartly. Margaret dislikes her royal duties, though she enjoys the prerogatives of her station. When she was down with measles last May she remembered a young Highland officer of her acquaintance who had had measles in his youth. Forthwith she sent a telegram: "Come at once." The young man's commanding officer gave him leave, and the laddie hastened to the ailing Princess...
Charles J. Christenson, Chicago. Robert H. Cole, Chicago. Richard A. Gotshalk, Urbana. Nathaniel D. Greenberg, Highland Park. Thomas K. Hunt, Park Ridge. Donald M. McKee, Wilmette...
Daniel Ellsberg, Highland Park. Lauren F. Otis, Bloomfield...
Cooler Judgment. In Washington, the U.S. Board on Geographical Names was asked to change the name of Warm Pond, N.Y., to Highland Lake, on the reasonable ground that it is 1) not a pond, but a lake, 2) not warm, but cool...