Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening in 1900, a round-faced young Canadian named William Lyon Mackenzie King walked alone on the Palatine hill in Rome. He was threshing out a personal problem. A graduate in arts, law, economics and political science from three universities (Toronto, Chicago, Harvard), he had accepted an appointment from Harvard as a lecturer. While he was in Rome a cable had come from Canada offering him the job of helping to organize a Department of Labor in the Canadian government...
...willed to him by the widow of his predecessor. In the attic study hung a lighted picture of his mother, the only woman in King's life. On a nearby wall was a framed copy of a public notice offering ?1,000 reward for the capture of William Lyon Mackenzie, his grandfather and namesake, who led a rebellion for responsible government in Canada...
Electees are: Ruth Ahara, Biochemical Sciences; Mary Grimley, English; Erica Hecht, English; Ann Howe, English; Mary Lyon, English; Mrs. Berna Osnos, Classics; Rosalind Rudy, Romance Languages and Literatures; Dorit Selig, English; Alice Sizer, Romance Languages and Literature; and Mrs. Barbara Snelling, Philosophy...
...Kewanna, Ind. weekly Observer (circ. 750), Publisher Bill Lyon ran this Page One notice: "The office of the Observer will be closed June 3 due to good fishing conditions. The office door will be left open and paper and pencil will be on the counter for accommodation of patrons who wish to leave news items...
...most finished piece in the current issue, and it is unfortunate that only a portion of the whole poem could appear. Mr. Bly's images and choice of words are always clear and appropriate; probably because he has chosen to write about something definite--a Sioux Massacre of 1862. Lyon Phelps' poem "Deutschland, Deutschland," which won honorable mention in the Garrison contest, strongly echoes Eliot in rhythm, symbols, and the use of the device of repeating fragments of a broken phrase. Phelps succeeds in effectively communicating to the reader the mood of fallen Germany in this post-war period...