Word: percivall
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Died. Frederick Abbot Stokes, 82, founder (1881) and president (since 1890) of Frederick A. Stokes Co. (book publishers); after long illness; in Manhattan. Some of the authors his firm introduced: James Branch Cabell, Louis Bromfield, Percival Christopher Wren.
A blue sapphire, a memory of childhood, and a "gallant Gesture,"--these are the elements which Percival Wren molded into a chivalric romance set in his own time, the dying days of the Victorian era. Hs novel forms such exciting dramatic material that countless actors of stage and screen have...
Behind the treaty's signing was a background of money, diplomatic scheming, intrigue, the threat and promise of arms. Undoubtedly assisting French Ambassador René Massigli and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen in their talks with Turkish statesmen was the fact that they could promise an immediate...
While Prime Minister King met with his Cabinet, plump, black-bearded Percival Price, carilloneur of the Parliament Building's peace tower played, with his assistant Robert Donnell, selections from Wagner, favorite composer of Adolf Hitler. They were practicing for this week's Carilloneurs' Congress in Manhattan. At...
The idea of life on Mars got a big push in 1877 when the Italian Astronomer Schiaparelli* first pictured the vague markings called "canals." Schiaparelli actually called them canali, which means "channels," but was translated "canals." Rivers cut channels, but canals are built by intelligent agents. In the U. S...