Word: humes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nelson ("The Doc") Hume had started the school himself, and for 33 years had been its headmaster. Canterbury School, on a hill above New Milford, Conn., blossomed into a tony Roman Catholic version of Groton and St. Mark's. Its ambition was to turn out Catholic boys for Ivy League colleges, without neglecting their religious training. There were no monks or priests about: Canterbury calls itself the only Catholic prep school in the U.S. run exclusively by laymen. Doc Hume, an imposing, bushy-browed man of booming voice, taught the boys apologetics and Christian ethics and led them...
...month later, The Doc, 67, was dead of a heart attack. Last week, Canterbury's trustees fulfilled Founder Hume's wish by appointing Walter Sheehan, 37, as Canterbury's second headmaster...
...probably put her whole heart into stuff even thinner, plays it in that slothful spirit. But the picture is good enough to pass an idle hour. It ambles from one easy, half-developed comic idea to another, with few serious dead spots between. Typical gags: Johnson and his publisher (Hume Cronyn) fouled up in an Indian war at the orphanage; the leapings and snatchings of respectable people at a small-town wedding, tormented by the ants which Butch has turned loose...
...desperately hoping that the Hyde Park Agreement could be kept alive. The oral pact made in 1941 between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King had treated Canada like a 49th state in sharing scarce commodities-especially oil and steel. Last week, in a speech in New York City, Humphrey Hume Wrong, Canada's Ambassador to the U.S., made a bold bid for perpetual preference...
...government suggested ?50,000 as a likely figure for the consort's annual allowance. Joseph Hume, the radical member for Kilkenny, thought it was too much. "Are you aware," he asked his Tory colleagues, "of the danger of setting a young man down in London with so much money in his pocket?" The House of Commons took a vote and decided that ?40,000 a year was ample for Victoria's Prince Albert...