Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petitioner was a sandy-haired Dutch Protestant named Henri A. Robbe Groskamp. No scholar, Groskamp first became interested in Christ's trial through reading religious books in his mother's library while he was hiding out from the Germans during the occupation. In the end he began to feel that he was divinely inspired to do something about it. Groskamp first appealed to the World Council of Churches meeting in Amsterdam last summer; then he lodged his carefully drawn legal brief with the Supreme Court of Israel...
...Bellorius Celebration takes place simultaneously with a religious pilgrimage, a gathering of stamp collectors and ; congress of 500 women athletes. Scott-King's companions include a battered newspaperwoman, a law professor substituting for someone else, a Swiss scholar who wanders into the hills and is murdered by partisans. Since the British government has no official knowledge og Scott-King's presence in the country, his is compelled to leave by the underground disguised as a nun, and is at length deposited at a small Mediterranean port among various royalists, anarchists, Pétainists, terrorists, ex-Gestapo men, Italian...
...Duke of Kent himself, a scholar at Eton...
...Rhodes Scholar and later an assistant dean at Harvard, Bill Nichols first looked for success as a pressagent for the late Sam Insull. When Insull's utilities empire collapsed in 1932, Nichols switched painlessly to a Harvard publicity job and then to TVA. In 1937 he became editor of Sunset, a Pacific Coast house-&-garden monthly; in 1943 he became editor of This Week, only four years after joining the staff of its founding editor, the late Mrs. William Brown ("Missy") Meloney. Both money-losers were out of the red a year after he took them over...
...Bridges Daryush was 42 when her father, Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, died in 1930. Except to a very small number of readers, her own poetry was then, and still is, almost unknown. But if her admirers are few, they are also fervent. Chief among them is the California poet, scholar and critic, Yvor Winters, who made this selection. In his opinion, Mrs. Daryush is "one of the few distinguished poets of our century and a poet who can take her place without apology in the company of Campion and Herrick...