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Spoonful of Oil. Therewith began the Anglican Communion service, which is the heart of coronation. Embedded in the familiar liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer, the mysteries of the anointing and crowning lost their strangeness for Britons, and the Abbey became, in a trice a nation's parish church. Archbishop and people intoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Your Undoubted Queen | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Princeton's tennis team sports a 42 game winning streak as it takes on the trice beaten varsity today at 3 p.m. at Nassau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Will Play Undefeated Princeton Today | 5/8/1953 | See Source »

When a show was stranded in Shrewsbury, she earned her keep as a barmaid. In Lon don, she got a job in the chorus of one of Andre Chariot's revues, understudied Bea trice Lillie, and married a director named Francis Gordon-Howley. During World War I, Gertrude, though both ill and pregnant, took over in Bea's place and stopped the show. In the midst of one of the heaviest Zeppelin raids of the war, she was rushed from the theater for the premature birth of her daughter, Pamela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Last Dance | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...wrathful Freshman, in a trice, Sent back another bigger slice, Which, being buttered pretty well. Made greasy work wherever it fell...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

...telling him) a Senator her own age. The Secretary's bland if not too convincing strategy is to make the Senator lose ground politically by being a bachelor, and then hurry him into a marriage-in-name-only with a seemingly plain and simple schoolteacher. In a trice, of course, the bride grows wildly attractive and wonderfully astute. This state of affairs, even when christened Affairs of State, can have but one outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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