Word: moire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are J. Seelye Bixler, president of Colby College in Waterville, Me.; Mrs. John A. Moir of Chestnut Hill; Mrs. Clement A. Smith, instructor in the Radcliffe Management Training Program; and Edwin R. Embree of Chicago and New York City, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund...
...Dunster J-51 KIR 4689 Maynard, J. '46, Eliot K-33 ELI 1032 Merrill, C. C. '46, Winthrop B-42 ELI 2164 Miller, R. F. '45, Leverett E-32 KIR 1420 Miller, R. W. '46, Winthrop E-24 ELI 1029 Mitchell, E. A. '44, Dunster K-42 TRO 7681 Moir, A. K. '46, Leverett H-43 KIR 4768 Montgomery, R. H. '45, Leverett A-24 KIR 2096 Moore, A. '46, Eliot B-12 ELI 0864 Morgan, J. A. '44, Adams B-16 TRO 9387 Morgan, R. W., Jr., '46, Eliot H-21 TRO 2491 Morgan, W. H. SS, Wigglesworth...
...WINSTON CHURCHILL'S PRIVATE SECRETARY-Phyllis Moir-Wilfred Funk...
...Phyllis Moir (pronounced Moyer) was a Churchill admirer long before Dunkirk. In her gawky girlhood he had been a "Walter Scott hero come to life." Later he became the "Peter Pan of British Politics." And finally, "the impact of his personality was so shattering that I felt, when I left his service, that this had been the private secretaryship to end all private secretaryships." Net result: I Was Winston Churchill's Private Secretary is a short, thin, intimate sketch infused with adolescent adoration...
From her position in the wings, Secretary Moir has seen Winnie strut the stage with nothing but a towel about his middle. She has heard him bawl for his mail, his secretary and a scotch & soda all in one breath. She tells of how he took up painting to assuage the bitterness that followed Gallipoli, how in his younger years he had stage-door-johnnied Ethel Barrymore (with little success). But though she is sometimes astute about her idol ("He is 'over-engined' for peace perhaps but perfectly engined, I think, for war"), Winston Churchill remains for Phyllis...