Word: manly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marine Sergeant Charles McLaughlin, who stayed on after the 1916-24 occupation to become a colonel in Trujillo's army and president of the Dominican Airline. Last week, before 1,600 guests in white ties and formal gowns, in a wedding party that included the dictator as best man, Alma marched under an archway of swords and took Hector in marriage...
...have never been Communist. I am less Communist than [Australia's External Affairs Minister Richard G.] Casey because I don't believe in secret police and he does." Clearing his throat, he added: "Until this political atmosphere is cleaned up, I could not advise any public-spirited man of any intellectual level to come to Australia...
Notified by Yale University that he is the school's oldest living graduate, football's Grand Old (97) Man Amos Alonzo Stagg (Yale '88) mulled over the matter for a moment, then wired back to New Haven: "Thanks for your good telegram telling me of the distinction which has befallen me. I shall try to behave myself for the rest of my days so that dear old Yale will not suffer...
...Euphemian Literary Society of-little (507 students), 120-year-old Erskine College (which is most of Due West, S.C.) gave an honorary membership to onetime Erskine Man Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, who is named after Erskine's founder, Ebenezer Erskine. The honor is even rarer than a Nobel Prize in literature. Only other honorary Euphemian: Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who was elected to the society in 1868, failed because of ill health to come by and get his diploma. But nobody around Due West can now remember why Lee was so saluted...
...maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number of figures who accept the way of the world, sometimes with an eye to the future. A radical laborer and a reactionary aristocrat, a pretty young wife (Natasha Parry) and a clever young man assail or try to enlighten the general, not because he dreams but because his dreams have gone out of fashion...