Word: kiplinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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His memory is dimmed by the bitter fact that the war itself turned out to be the obliterating modern thing he himself had predicted. His Broome Park house, which Bachelor Kitchener had hoped would be another Blenheim for his ducal bones, was sold and became a hotel. As for last...
-Rudyard Kipling
"The true lovers of Jane Austen are those who do not advertise their devotion, but are content to whisper 'Dear Jane' as they pause at the grave in the ancient aisle of Winchester Cathedral." This remark (from the Concise Cambridge History of English Literature) shows precisely the position...
Short, stocky Ibrahim Abboud, 58, is known to his fellow officers as a fatherly type. Born on the Red Sea coast, a member of the Hadendowa tribe that furnished the Fuzzy-Wuzzies immortalized by Rudyard Kipling for breaking a British square, Abboud became an army lieutenant in 1921, served with...
Thus East (Unni Menon, a mystical engineer) meets West (Anne Ford, the new English teacher at a Khatmandu girls' school) in Author Han (A Many-Splendored Thing) Suyin's new novel. And why was it that critics denounced Kipling?