Word: progenitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess and Casilda are rather dull at best, but the Duchess at the Hollis hardly possesses the domineering thick contralto of the Savoy tradition; and her account to her daughter Casilda of how she "tamed your great progenitor at last" is more kittenish than relentless as it should be. As for Casilda, she sings too noisily, particularly in "There Was a Time," a delicious bit of Victorian sentimentalism that should be dealt with tenderly...
...Trondjem, Norway, Author Duun has written exclusively of the life of his native parish, though his books are far from parochial. His earlier works (Three Friends, The Good Conscience} were preparatory to his six-volume Juviking epic that follows that family's affairs from times when Progenitor Per Anders fights hand to hand with the Devil, to his descendants' struggles with more modern devilish banks and herring-oil factories. Highly prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than in his difficult Landsmaal dialect) he is reported to have missed...
...horse heights no longer; free-wheeling and the radio have pried men's feet from off the old wood-stove. Men go their several ways. The covers of the old "Gazette" live and move on the screen; and the tabloids, shock for shock, outdistance and undersell their progenitor. Upstart terriers have worried the old bloodhound to his death...
...Avenue town house. Intelligent observers who visit the Milles work this winter will have no trouble in dividing the subjects into two groups. First group exemplifies a tortured Norse brooding. Prime example is the central figure from the Folkunga Fountain at Linkoping, commemorating the legendary Swedish hero Folke Filbyter, progenitor of the royal Swedish house of Folkungarna. According to legend. Folke was a harsh man who incurred the wrath of the Church. Monks spirited his grand son away. For years Folke roamed the countryside on horseback, looking for the boy. After 24 years, as he was dying, he found...
...custom of laying down board walks annually during the winter season is half a century old. It was instituted by the Corporation in 1880 largely because of student agitation end of the editorial policies of the CRIMSON and its progenitor, the Magenta, whose columns for seven years warmly espoused the movement for plank walks. The first issue of the Magenta, appearing on January 24, 1873, contained the following editorial: "We wish the College would lay plank walks in the yard: As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal...