Word: waterlooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that ambitious little monarch Henry VIII. The luckless, unpopular Stuarts would have grown green with jealousy had they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost any of Britain's past crowned heads would have admired the scene at Portsmouth...
...pack of women running after Cinemactor Spencer Tracy on a platform in London's Waterloo Station knocked Arturo Toscanini flat...
With the French Revolution and the battle of Waterloo rumbling in the background, "He Was Born Gay" is a fantasy woven about the legend of the Last Dauphin. Written by Emlyn Williams, staged by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the leadership of Jock Munroe, the play shows thought and skill on the part of the writer, director, and cast. Rough edges were smothed, the surface polished, and the performance was well-rounded and unified...
...essential characteristics of each. Despite Stevens' clarity and firm solidity, his paintings seem very natural, in fact so natural that it is almost possible for you to feel your way into them. Nevertheless, he avoids the dangerous pitfall of travel-poster sensationalism which has in many cases been the Waterloo of other painters who have worked from the game point of view. Three paintings by Prescott Jones contain a delicate but virile just position of tones. Great technical facility can be readily seen in his "Indian Town," a fine example of the effect of the wants color medium when used...
...almost died of enteric fever, met Mark Twain on a boat going to England. Mark Twain medicated the convalescent with Tom & Jerries (rum, hot water, cinnamon, eggs), persuaded him to go to the U. S. Jerger did so, got through his medical schooling and internship in Chicago, settled in Waterloo, Ia. Eventually he returned to Chicago and built up a fine surgical practice; but he never forgot that he was a family doctor...