Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attractive and susceptible women who crossed the major's path. Junoesque Helen Hackman found his glamour and gallantry well-nigh irresistible. Signed on as his private secretary and bivouacked at his hotel, Helen spent many a happy hour in the major's company, dropping in at supper clubs by night, driving through the countryside by day. If Helen had a moment of doubt when the wardens at Dart moor Prison waved a cheery greeting to her companion one day as they drove by. it was promptly dispelled by the major's quickly reassuring words: "I used...
Most outspoken in asserting the Essene-Christianity link is Manchester's Allegro, who currently is presenting a weekly series of BBC talks on his conclusions. He said two weeks ago that the historical basis of the Last Supper and part, at least, of both the Lord's Prayer and the New Testament teaching of Jesus can be attributed to the Qumran sect. "The Teacher of Righteousness", he said, "was persecuted and probably crucified by Gentiles at the instigation of a wicked priest of the Jews." Allegro, himself a philologist, claimed that the similarity had caused "a minor revolution...
...SHAPE'S annual dining-in affair in Paris, glittering with NATO's top brass, slightly offbeat but recognizable supper music rose from the Royal Canadian Signal Corps band under the batons of amateur conductors, choppy General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and his first deputy, stabby Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein...
...performing publicly in Communist Prague the day Jan Masaryk dies, and snappishly ordered to perform privately. But perhaps it should first be said that the Sebastians are played, in gay holiday style, by the Lunts. Otherwise, their being ordered by a Communist general to read the minds of his supper guests and their getting nastily involved in political intrigue might create an impression of something grim and arouse hopes of something gripping. As it is, The Great Sebastians is not the least bit grim or gripping-only, now and then, rather ploddingly serious. In itself, in fact, Lindsay & Grouse...
...respecter of persons, the epidemic laid low both the head dietitian and Miss Katherine Fernstrom, Moors housemother. Focus of the infection is believed to have been a Thursday evening supper of Swedish meatballs, long a staple in the Radcliffe diet...