Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet. As Chief Regent, pallid Prince Paul had his hands full last week when he opened King Alexander's political testament. The testament was couched in such terms that Prince Paul felt obliged to exact the resignation of Premier Uzunovitch who, of course, was furious...
...characters involved in the New Testament miracle of the devils and the Gadarene swine meet in court to establish the costs of the action...
...first worked out after McCall and Wingo observed and pondered the contrast between the efficiency with which business draws ability to its service and the haphazard way in which most public servants are recruited. The idea, however, is not a new one, for included in the last will and testament of George Washington is the wish for a national institution at Washington to afford to young people a training in the social sciences, particularly government and politics...
...WIND-Frieda Lawrence -Viking ($2.50). Until Frieda Lawrence published her testament this week, it must have seemed to her that every Tom, Dick & Harry, Thomasina and Henrietta had had their impertinent say about her late greatly-discussed husband, David Herbert Lawrence. Perhaps it would have been more dignified to keep silence when so many hastened to speak, but Frieda Lawrence has never stood on her dignity. "I did not want to write this book," says she. "I wanted to give Lawrence my silence." Then, with refreshing candor: "Do I want to blow my own trumpet? Yes, I do. . . . I will...
...poor health, he worked away at Black Monastery, his one big book, lived to see it published (May 1931) seven weeks before his death. Though the Versailles Treaty whittled Hungary down to an impoverished fraction of its pre-War self, 20,000 copies of Author Kuncz's last testament have been sold there...