Word: maud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Danish throne. In a desperate motherly effort to secure a like position for Carl, Denmark's Queen Louise did her best to promote a marriage between him and The Netherlands' young Queen Wilhelmina. Carl would have none of it. Smitten with Britain's Princess Maud, and dedicated, like her brother-the future George V-to the sea, the strapping, 6-ft.-3?-in. youngster married his love and embarked on a promising career in the Danish navy, achieving on his own merits the right to command any vessel in the fleet...
...magazine's most significant critical contribution to date has been a lively discussion on the work of Edwin Muir, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer. In his first issue, editor Ralph Maud charged that Muir's ineffective allegory and poetic diction produce a kind of poetic chastity. The main value of Maud's essay was that it evoked a highly articulate and sympathetic defense of Muir's poetry from Dr. Harold Martin, director of General Education...
Your picture story [Sept. 5] on American horses was beautifully done. But shades of Hambletonian, Goldsmith Maid, Maud S., Dan Patch and Greyhound, how did you ever forget the most populous tribe of them all, the standardbred...
...real trouble in Northern Ireland. But it was doubtful whether Costello, who presides over a coalition government, is strong enough to do what De Valera had done. In Costello's Cabinet there are men who agree with ex-Foreign Minister Sean MacBride (son of the late famed Patriot Maud Gonne, and himself an old I.R.A. man) who said: "While the I.R.A. voices the national sentiment of the people, no Irish government would place itself in the position of fighting...
...typical reaction to the College was given that fall by a visiting Oxford student, John Maud: "I had come over here expecting to find Harvard a hot-bed of collegiatism. My disillusionment was most welcome." The English scholar added as explanation, "Oxford, you know, is tremendously amused at the so-called 'College Spirit...