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...nearest UF office is 53 Church St., TR 6-5214. It will be open all day Saturday and all weekdays and nights. The drive ends Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charity Canvassers Needed | 11/8/1958 | See Source »

...scholar's trade to research and write it. They conned old documents, interviewed local authorities, counted everything from pigs to letter boxes. They found that Offord had also been known as Upeford, Opeford, Uppe-ford, Oppeford, Upford, Hupford and Up-pord. In the Domesday Book it was Uf-ford. One Arnulf de Hesding owned ten hides (1,000 acres) at Cluny Manor, and the Countess Judith owned three at Darcy Manor. A restored Cluny Manor still stands (Oliver Cromwell slept there), and some old Offonians still remember when it was haunted by a "little old lady" who would appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Write History | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

what does little Ernest croon in his death at afternoon? (kow dow r 2 bid retoinis wus de woids uf lil Oinis Those who would like to see a good take-off on the white cult of the Negro will find one in Poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buzzard of Is | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Brebéuf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Iroquois Atonement | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

There is, inevitably, a not too artful rendition of the "Song of the Volga Boatmen," but what Mr. Balieff used to call "De Prade uf de Vooden Sojus" is happily omitted. Instead, there is a charming mechanical toy number, which Mr. Yushny has to wind up from time to time, called "Souvenir Lowere de Suisse." Miss Isa Kremer, a local Diseuse, appears to please audiences most with an astonishing repertory of songs, beginning with a French lullaby, skipping blithely through an Italian street ballad and an old English lyric to end up with the impersonation of a Kentucky mountain woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Show in Manhattan | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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