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...quick eye, sharp tongue and mocking sense of social comedy. An unfavorite cousin's face reminds her of a "mandrill's behind." T.S. Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday she greets as "Tom's hard-boiled egg." She describes avoiding an encounter with Ethel Smyth, the doughty, pipe-smoking feminist and composer who became infatuated with her: "I could not face her, though she was passing our door. Her letters sound as if she was in a furious droning mood, like a gale, all on one note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Values | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...furniture, appliances, apparel, autos and financial services. Already this group spends 50% more than the average consumer for furniture and one-third more for appliances. John Widdicomb Co., a top-of-the-line furniture manufacturer, has increased its advertising to attract these people, while Chicago's John M. Smyth Co. retail furniture chain has expanded its interior decorating services to appeal to the more sophisticated customer entering early middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Over-the-Thrill Crowd | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Shari Myers Smyth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1978 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would be hard for even the most perverted imagination to conjure up anything worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: On Trial for Blasphemy | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

Most of the speeches at "The Field" seemed to echo Martin Smyth, Imperial Grand Master of the Orange Institution, who pledged his allegiance to the Crown. "The Monarchy stands for the highest and best of our Constitutional procedures," Smyth said. "All things are done in the name of Her Majesty whether it is a result of foolish counsel by her ministers...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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