Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibit lasting until Monday of authors' worksheets and original manuscripts leaned by the University of Buffalo, the Widener Poetry Room is displaying Stephen Spender's workbook, the manuscript of W. H. Auden's "Crisis," and of Robert Bridges' "Testament of Beauty...
Aretino wrote the beast's Last Will & Testament, assigning Hanno's various organs to those cardinals they most scandalously fitted. Leo made him his court jester, and on the next fat chance-a series of verses burlesquing the deadlocked conclave that followed Leo's death-Aretino made himself famous all over Europe...
...some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."† As a radical, Frank is not so uncompromising as shillelagh-artists like Corcoran, Old-Testament purists like Cohen, bouncers like Henderson. Least hardboiled, most likable of the New Dealers, he is nevertheless the most daring and original theorist among them...
...story of General Cambronne and his reply to the British (TIME, Jan. 22) was told first by Herodotus about an Egyptian general, 2,250 years before General Cambronne thought of it. And I'm not right sure Herodotus didn't get it from an Old Testament incident. The funniest reference to the same recherche subject is found in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday, if I remember rightly, only that time it was a housemaid...
...Testament. When Douglas Fairbanks Sr. died suddenly last Dec. 12, Hollywood's wise men guessed his estate would be a whopper, but did not know how much, or who would be his heirs. Last week Douglas Fairbanks' will was filed in Manhattan. It disposed of an estate of more than...