Word: wight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound--Vinton (A) defeated Waddell (fall; 128-pound--Lamp (A) defeated Nutt (fall); 136-pound--Linn (A) defeated Currier; 145-pound--Sawyer (A) defeated Harris (fall); 155-pound Hardenburgh (A) defeated Perry; 165-pound--Rogers (H) defeated Ordeman (fall); 175-pound--Beber (H) defeated Waring; Unlimited--Houston (H) defeated Wight (fall...
Candida's scalawag father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) was often amusing; the prissy Prossy (Mildred Natwick) almost always was. But though Marlon Brando got a measure of individuality into Marchbanks, Shaw's soft-shelled poet seemed once again a wight that never was on sea or land. And Parson Morell (Wesley Addy) was not the man for whom Prossy would have pined or Candida gladly drudged. Candida's choosing him over Marchbanks seemed largely, last week, like choosing the lesser of two evils...
Outline of my life. R. C. Benchley, Born Isle of Wight, September 15, 1807. Shipped as cabin boy on Florence J. Marble, 1815. Arrested for bigamy and murder in Port Said, 1817. Released 1820. Wrote "Tale of Two Cities." Married Princess Anastasie of Portugal, 1831. Children: Prince Rupprecht and several little girls. Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 1850. Editor "Godey's Ladies Book" 1851-'56. Began Les Miserables 1870 (finished by Victor Hugo). Died 1871. Buried in Westminster Abbey...
...precious little baby" married Prince Henry of Battenberg (later Englished to Mountbatten) at 28, after the. Prince agreed to become a British subject, and she to live close by the widowed Queen. At her husband's death, Beatrice succeeded him as Governor and Coroner of the Isle of Wight, permitted a deputy to conduct the inquests. In the tradition of royal British hobbyists, she played the piano, watercolored, amassed one of the world's largest, noblest autograph collections...
GERALD R. WIGHT Trinidad, B.W.I...