Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soak the Rich. Having already borrowed the legal limit from the Bank of France and hoping to borrow more to offset the government deficit, Mollet had encountered Bank of France Governor Wilfrid Baumgartner, conscientious keeper of the country's precious bullion reserves. Said smooth, silver-haired Baumgartner: "I want collateral-taxes. And quickly." Mollet's answer: a soak-the-rich tax program that hit corporation earnings, dividends and inventories, added four francs per liter...
GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, 1700-1900, by Sacheverell Sitwell and Wilfrid Blunt (94 pp.; Collins: $50), is one of the most beautiful as well as one of the most expensive books of the year. Its illustrations are the work of the great botanical artists of two centuries, and the flowers stand lushly on pages 1½ ft. high and more than a foot wide. The book derives further elegance from the graceful and handsomely printed essays of Flower Enthusiasts Sitwell and Blunt...
...other policy which has generally been followed was the original decision to have professional direction of all HDC plays. This was first interpreted as hiring directors who had worked on Broadway, such as Wilfrid North, director of the first production. Later, recent graduates who had had either professional or amateur experience were hired, and in succeeding years, capable undergraduates directed the shows...
Dust screens rise before the attacking tribesmen, mobile artillery lobs fireballs at the wooden stockade, and at the climactic moment an improvised land torpedo demolishes a corner of the fort. The siege is superlatively picturesque, and so is almost everything else that Cameraman "Wilfrid Cline has trained his lens on. Some spectators, though, may be mildly startled at the final fade, in which the lovers are back in the water again, drifting sensuously downstream together with nothing on as they laugh derisively at the wagon train that rolls sturdily past them on its way to the coast. Somehow, it just...
...Wilfrid Garrett, the Anglican layman (a retired colonel) under whose chairmanship the report had been prepared, opened the debate with a defense of the report against charges of "Machiavellian plotting or external influence." He bluntly accused Dr. Frank Buchman's M.R.A. of "political-pressure-group tactics." Said the Bishop of Colchester: In addition to its "Four Absolutes" of honesty, love, purity, and unselfishness, M.R.A. was trying to add a fifth-"absolute approval or absolute praise [of its work] . . . That in all seriousness," said the bishop, "is the root of all the trouble caused by this report." Top M.R.A. supporter...