Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...describe the former Prime Minister. A New Statesman and Nation editorial said: "[Daladier] has a more personal responsibility for the initial military failure than any single British statesman. . . . There is little doubt that his going will influence political developments in Britain. Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Caldecote, Lord Simon and Sir Kingsley Wood . . . are tarred with the same brush...
...serious side, it had important names but no more. Maxwell Anderson's Key Largo, Sidney Kingsley's The World We Make, Paul Vincent Carroll's Kindred were pretentious; Clifford Odets' Night Music and Elmer Rice's Two on an Island were Boy-Meets-Girl potboilers. Hemingway's The Fifth Column was interesting for more than a title which has since become part of the language; but by the time Benjamin Glazer finished rewriting it, much of the play's realistic force was obscured by romantic nonsense. Best of a bad lot was Robert...
...fool can cite "historical facts" to prove his purpose just as well as the devil can cite scripture. Furthermore, let us not forget that the original Trojan horse that doomed Troy did not goose-step through the gates, but entered as a holy sanctimonious offering to the gods. George Kingsley Zipf '23, University Lecturer...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir Kingsley Wood, who was an able administrator until, as Air Secretary, he got caught in the buzz saw of plane production...
Meanwhile the managers of London's popular El Morocco bottle club were haled into Bow Street Police Court for putting on a strip-tease competition among female guests, the winner to be awarded a full-length nude of herself by Painter Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, R. A. Commented the official German radio: "The best people of London amused themselves by very strange contests. During [a] trial ... it came out that the idea of these contests was: who is the quickest in undressing? Especially the young ladies of London society took part in these contests. The girl who was the first...