Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famous cotillion leader in the salons of Florence and Paris, he boasted an ancestry that included three colonial governors, a wife who was the daughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, Chicago dry-goods tycoon. Reggie wore a monocle from the age of 15. When he built his Tudor mansion on Manhattan's Park Ave nue between 85th and 86th Streets (it still stands), he dressed himself as Sir Walter Raleigh and gave a mammoth housewarming, serving up a boar's head on a platter...
...Sheriff of Middlesex County, girt with his sword of office as representative of sovereignty, calls the meeting to order. The assembly is opened with prayer. The President takes his place in the ancient Tudor chair which has been the Harvard President's seat of office for over two centuries. On his right are the Fellows and Overseers of Harvard College (the two governing boards created by the Charter of 1650), and the distinguished guests, some of whom are to receive honorary degrees. On his left are members of the several faculties, in full academic dress, the gowns and hoods...
...Cambridge's famed Trinity. His father, Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, had made a great name at Trinity as an athlete; he had been a militant Christian who became an athletic Bishop; at 70, bald, snow-bearded and retired, he still walked his 18 miles a day. Standing before the Tudor Gothic dining hall on one side of Nevile's Court, the General pointed to the flight of seven broad, semicircular steps, said proudly: "My father jumped those at one bound...
When Italy surrendered last September, three high British officers were glumly killing time in a prisoner-of-war camp near Florence. Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd had been captured late in 1940, when his transport was forced down in Sicily. Lieut. Generals Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor and Philip Neame, V.C., had been crudely kidnapped by a Nazi motorcycle patrol which stumbled across them in a stalled truck convoy near Derna, Libya, on a spring night...
Somerset Maugham anticipated another theatrical version of his 22-year-old story Miss Thompson, which became Rain. Coming to Broadway was a fancy edition called Sadie Thompson, "with book and lyrics supplied by Howard Dietz and tunes by Vernon Duke. . . . Anton Tudor will direct the dances and plans to utilize a Polynesian chorus in addition to a corps de ballet...