Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baroness Ravensdale, 62, vice-president of the National Association of Girls' Clubs and Mixed Clubs, and daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, onetime Viceroy of India...
...Times, rather unchivalrously, "but hardly exciting." Added the Daily Telegraph: "The list makes history -without unduly disturbing it." Absent were the expected names of sharp-tongued, Virginia-born Lady Astor, the first lady to sit in Britain's Parliament, and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, busy daughter of the late Prime Minister Sir Herbert Henry Asquith. Also missing: the Viscountess Rhondda, who died last week...
Planning a study trip to the U.S. was the pretty daughter of Japan's late Dictator Hideki Tojo, who declared war on the U.S. in 1941 and was hanged for war crimes in 1948. Bright-eyed Kimiye, 26, a graduate student of international politics at Hosei University, wants to earn a doctorate, preferably at Columbia University. For her master's degree she is finishing a 300-page master's thesis on "The Rise of Nationalism in India...
...memory of the late scholar and translator Monsignor Ronald Knox, for 13 years Oxford's wise, witty Roman Catholic chaplain, a group of old Oxonians, including Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Philosopher-Critic C. S. Lewis, will set up a grant for Biblical or classical studies at the school longest associated with his name, Trinity College...
During a now notorious production of Lohengrin, Vienna's late, famed Tenor Leo Slezak missed his entrance cue (so the story goes), and the swan appeared onstage alone, drawing an empty skiff. During the ensuing flap, Tenor Slezak's voice was clearly heard from the wings, in the manner of an annoyed traveler addressing the stationmaster: "When does the next swan leave...