Word: huguenot
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...Author has written her tale in a manner that seems oldfashioned, courtly, Victorian when compared with contemporary styles. At times reminiscent of her friend, David Garnett, she has none of Garnett's slyness; her implications are altogether moral. Member of an old Huguenot family that has lived in England for generations, daughter of a Victorian clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes...
...coastal Negro dialect of South Carolina, part Huguenot, part English, part African. Sample: W'en oona duh de-dey, duh dee' duh un de-dey (When you are there, the deer is not there...
General Fechet is to the banner born. The fighting strain (French-Huguenot, not Irish) surges through Fechet blood. His uncle quit the U. S. Army after long service, irked with peace, and went to Egypt to fight. The nephew was elevated to the Air Service from the Cavalry where he won his spurs. Many a War and post-War flier was trained under his command at Scott, Carlstrom, Dorr and Kelly Fields. His brother officers still think he looks "like a Remington cavalryman." "Take a good look at that fighting jaw," say they...
Married. James Russell Lowell, great-grandson of Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell; third-cousin-once-removed of President A, Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell;* to Julia Brokaw, direct descendant of Bourgon Broucard,? French Huguenot exile, who sought refuge in America in 1675; in Manhattan. Headmaster the Rev. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School, officiated...
...They were trapped out in state uniforms, ribbons across chests, decorations pendent. They spoke little. Premier Briand was thinking of his successful 1905 fight to oust the Church from its French properties, of his long struggle to keep separate Church and State in France. President Doumergue thought of his Huguenot ancestors buried in Provence. Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office to the robing of a Catholic prelate. Yet his countrymen are mostly Catholics, although by no means altogether dutifully so, and it would be politic to ignore last spring's imbroglio with the Vatican...