Search Details

Word: tudors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Author Kendall's big book, which has been hailed excitedly in Britain, differs from its predecessors by virtue of the raw material on which it is based. Kendall argues that after Henry Tudor destroyed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth. he was careful, as Henry VII, to take away Richard's reputation as well as his crown. Tudor historians (whom Shakespeare followed) spent the next hundred years or so blackening the defeated monarch in order to whitewash their own regime. So, Kendall argues, all Tudor evidence is suspect; only the evidence of Richard's contemporaries should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Average Brute | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Public Service. In Southsea, England a notice was posted on the wall of the Tudor Rose Cafe, where bosomy Marian Weeks was employed: "Patrons are kindly requested not to waste the waitress's time by asking for her vital statistics . They are 41½, 26, 37. 'S true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...without Baker, Bate, Brower, Levin, Shannon, Guerard, and Rollins. So pity the poor English major as he tries to find a professor. Sorrow for him as he searches for courses with which to pass generals. Grieve for him as he looks for Modern Novels, Romantic Poets, Elizabethan Literature, Early Tudor Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Criticism, and Modern Poetry. Unloved, unwanted, and now uneducated--pity the poor English major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alone, Alone... | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

Hockey Captain Charlie Flynn received the John Tudor Memorial Award as the team's most valuable player at the first annual hockey dinner last Wednesday. Defenseman Mario Cell was awarded the Donald Angier trophy as the squad's most improved player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Awards | 4/27/1956 | See Source »

...Tudor, a pianist, will perform a number of modern American and European works, including two of Cage's compositions. Cage, who will join him on a second piano for the world premiere of Cage's "Music for Two Pianos," has been lecturing on musical concepts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experimental Music In Sanders Tonight | 4/20/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next