Word: nicholases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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* Rayburn dislikes the name, which was given to the sessions by Texas' John Nance Garner, who, as a House member, used to signal Speaker Nicholas Longworth each afternoon that it was time to "strike a blow for liberty." Explained Garner: "You know, you get a couple of drinks in a...
NICHOLAS CRABBE (245 pp.) -Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) -New Directions ($4.75).
Like a stink bomb with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of...
The son of a piano manufacturer, Rolfe became a Roman Catholic convert at 26, studied for the priesthood but was expelled from his seminary in Rome. For the rest, he was a weirdly gifted writer, schoolmaster, painter, photographer, workhouse inmate, homosexual, paranoiac, and perhaps the most merciless autobiographer ever to...
Victor Priazhnikov opened the final period with an unassisted goal at 1:40, and he and Nicholas Sologubov finished the Russian scoring with a pair of goals near the seven-minute mark. Following this outburst, the Crimson mustered its only sustained offensive of the game with both the first and...