Word: maud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diamond Thought. On a white horse, wearing a green dress and her bronze knee-length hair done up in thick braids, Maud Gonne rode into Donegal, where the British battering rams had made a thousand people homeless. She organized resistance meetings, put hope into the peasants, fear into landlords' agents. Once, riding through a mountain glen, she came upon police guarding four young prisoners. Said she, in a voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame...
...passages, but most of its 120 minutes brim over with intense emotion. After an orchestral introduction, a choral recitative marks out the plot, and the first movement ends with what seems to be a rather static version of the famous balcony scene. The second movement has the familiar "Queen Maud Scherzo" and the final section describes the death of the lovers, and the reconciliation of the warring houses...
...idea: an occasional monetary award for deserving poets. Thomas McGreevy, director of Ireland's National Gallery, thought the ideal memorial would be a retreat where poets and scholars could work in peace-a kind of "Castle in the Water" such as Yeats had dreamed up long ago with Maud Gonne, the great Irish beauty and patriot whom Yeats adored as his "phoenix...
Briggs Hall girls enjoy the opportunity of getting acquainted with Kenneth J. Conant, professor of architecture, at lunch each Tuesday. Helen Maud Cam, Zemurray-Stone Professor of History, visits Cabot for dinner each Wednesday night...
Secondly, would an account of the U.S.A as experienced by a foreign resident in this country in the years 1922-1934 be regarded as adequate or accurate evidence of the condition or the sentiments of American in 1951? Helen Maud...