Word: marmion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Captain John Lindley Marmion Dymoke, 26, British army officer and commoner, who, as 34th hereditary Queen's Champion, led Elizabeth II's coronation procession last June; and Susan Cicely Fane, 20, dark-haired debutante daughter of a Royal Navy lieutenant; near Grantham, England...
...Clarence Streit had no trouble imagining that the mud pond back of the Streits' four-room frame house was the Atlantic Ocean. As an adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit brood (two brothers, two sisters) awake half the night. The weapon...