Word: sibyl
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When he first read the letter from England last January, James N. Gape, 46, a valve company salesman and father of two children, let out a whoop of joy. His cousin's widow, Mrs. Sibyl Marion Geraldine Gape, had named him heir to an English estate that had been in the family for 500 years; it was worth, even at current rates, a tidy $270,000. There were two fine ancestral houses-Caxton Manor, with 16 rooms, 1,000 acres and three farms in Cambridgeshire; St. Michael's Manor, a 14-room, spacious-lawned house in Hertfordshire that...
...Eliot House, for a group of poems entitled, "Places and Portraits"; Peter S. Hanke '51, of Dunster House, for a group of poems entitled, "Now in the Antique Game, and Other Poems"; and Gerald P. Fitzgerald '52, of Winthrop House, for a group of poems entitled, "Words for Sibyl's Leaves...
...ancient law on the island of Sark forbids anyone but the island's hereditary lord to own a bitch. The only bitch on Sark in the last few years belonged to Sibyl Hathaway, the hereditary Dame of the island. She died two years ago. At that time a mousy radio repairman named Ernest Rand decided to quit London for the quiet of the Channel Islands. Knowing nothing of Sark's quaint laws, he sailed to the island taking with him his seven-year-old terrier, Jip. Officials permitted Jip to land without question and six months later Sark...
...Oxford Street in Cambridge, Mass. lives a sibyl, a priestess of science. Her devotees take their problems to her as devout ancient Greeks took their insolubles to Delphi. She is no mumbling, anonymous priestess, frothing her mouth with riddles. Her name is Bessie*; she is a long, slim, glass-sided machine with 760,000 parts, and the riddles that are put to her and that she unfailingly answers concern such matters as rocket motors, nuclear physics and trigonometric functions...
...Sibyl, Lady Stanley, 53, august daughter-in-law of the Earl of Derby, and for three years "extra maid of honor" to Queen Mary, found herself in a police court last fortnight. Her crime: financial freewheeling...