Word: shelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those days," muses Q, "conscious of some sublime but undefined mission." When the choir of ancient St. Petroc's Church chanted: "And thou, Child, shall be called the prophet of the highest," Q would blush and drop his eyes. He devoured Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Sir Thomas Browne, Shelley, boy's annuals...
From a hole in the wall of Mexico City's penitentiary, guards extracted a counterfeiting outfit and 200 phony $20 U.S. bills. The proprietor was inmate Luis Eduardo Shelley Hernández, counterfeiter extraordinary, graduate of Atlanta and Alcatraz...
Born in Venezuela and claiming a Spanish father who was once Ambassador to France, Señor Shelley's gentlemanliness wrecked his latest effort. In return for some of the $20 bills, a fellow inmate offered the hand of his daughter, not in marriage. When Shelley indignantly refused, the pimping parent betrayed the man of honor to the guards...
Fiorello LaGuardia, taking exception to Winston Churchill's terming the principles of the Atlantic Charter "a guide, not a rule," gave out a scholarly admonition to his fellow statesman: "Winston, if I may use the language of, say, Shakespeare, or Shelley or Dante Gabriel Rossetti or other British classicists, please don't louse...
...OPEN CITY-Shelley Smifh Mydans-Doubleday, Doran...