Word: townsends
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...Grand Old Men of Harvard, George Lyman Kittredge, John Livingston Lowes, Charles Townsend Copeland and Irving Babbitt, had been on the intellectual scene so long by the twenties that legends had grown up around each one of them. Into this sacrosanct atmosphere one fall came storming a brash, rebellious youngster fresh from a Minnespolis high school, who proceeded to impress many of these men almost as much as they impressed him, and to embark on a career which was already becoming legend before be had graduated. In his sophomore year be submitted a course essay on "Romantic Hellenism" to Irving...
...curious that Prince Philip, who just a short time ago was a penniless young man himself, aspiring to marriage with the most eligible young future Queen of Great Britain, should have been such a fire-and-tongs enemy of Townsend, and of Margaret's marriage. It would be interesting to know to just what extent this man is domineering the throne of Britain and the three women that make up the royal family. I am the mother of two, and believe there were strong arguments on both sides of the Margaret-Townsend question, but I'd hate...
...chill rain spread gloom over Lydd airport one morning last week as Group Captain Peter Townsend oversaw the loading of his green Renault sedan aboard an air freighter. Curious sightseers huddled near by, but the airman had no last words for them, not even a farewell wave of the hand as he himself climbed aboard the plane. A half hour later he was gone from
...decision to choose duty over love;* others felt only immense sympathy for her. But mixed with these solemn sounds, in many a pub in gambling-minded Britain, was the noise of bets being paid off. The London Times, which managed to editorialize on the news without mentioning Townsend by name, commended Margaret for doing what was "expected of her." The self-appointed leader of the opposite side, the brash tabloid Daily Mirror, proclaimed: "A crisis has come to the serene cloisters of the Church of England. Slowly, a wave of anger mounts against the Primate, bringing with it a tide...
...make the Princess' lot easier by so amending the Royal Marriages Act as to eliminate the necessity of a choice. The alternatives before Margaret had become hard and clear, and this week she made her painful choice. She announced: "I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend . . . Mindful of the Church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others...