Word: tudors
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When Bishop Latimer was about to burn at the stake for his Protestant loyalties (during the reign of Catholic "Bloody Mary" Tudor), he not only spoke one of history's most famous lines but defined an age: "We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as shall never be put out." The Reformation was an age of flame, lit both by candles and by faggots, by holiness and horror. Materialist-minded historians have no trouble tracing economic pressures and class struggles in the Reformation, yet it remains above all a conflict...
...Round Table, the Kerr Stables' bay colt, had to run all the way to make off with the fifth annual $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City. After stumbling at the starting gate, Round Table responded to a hard drive, held off Tudor Era by a whisker and scored his eighth straight victory...
...Robert Owen '58, of Leverett House and St. Louis Park, Minn., has been awarded the Donald Angier Memorial Trophy for the most improved player on the Harvard hockey team. Robert McVey '58, of Leverett House and Hamden, Conn., has won the John Tudor Memorial Cup for being named the team's most valuable player. Owen played defense and McVey was a wing on this year's Ivy League championship team...
First published in England 25 years ago, Son of Dust is laced with the sort of distinctive, evocative writing that has marked Author Prescott's more ambitious and accomplished works, e.g.,, Mary Tudor (TIME, Nov. 23, 1953) and Man on a Donkey (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952). But it is marred by a preening pedantry that too often finds Fulcun leaning on his quillons, sitting on a faldstool, glancing out of a dorter window or camping out on his alod-without benefit of definitions...
Alka-Seltzer & Vitamins. Last week Estes Kefauver and Adlai Stevenson, men who had fought and made up, were together on the campaign road. Before leaving Washington, Kefauver worked on routine chores in his office and in his six-bedroom English Tudor home in fashionable Spring Valley. (Richard Nixon lives about eight blocks away, the two Nixon girls and the two youngest Kefauver girls go to the same public school, Nancy Kefauver and Pat Nixon shop in the same neighborhood stores, belong to the same P.T.A. chapter.) Kefauver also went to Farnsworth-Reed Ltd., an exclusive 17th Street custom shop, bought...