Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Innocence & Scoundrels. Emily was 18 when the fundamentals of botany proved to be just as dangerous as Lady Ampthill had suggested. Poet Wilfrid Blunt, "a strikingly handsome" married man of 53, attempted to seduce her in the best tradition of Victorian villainy. Blunt wore Arab dress and exuded a virile masculinity breathtakingly different from the jam and waxworks of everyday life. "He took me through the park to a wood which was very pretty," Emily wrote his Rev. He at once took my hand and kissed it and stroked it, said he adored me, which I told...
...WILFRID GRENVILLE-GREY...
FRANCIS THOMPSON & WILFRID MEYNELL (212 pp.)-Viola Meynell-Dutton...
...London winter of 1887, a grubby manuscript fell into the mailbox of the monthly Merry England. Editor Wilfrid Meynell promptly pigeonholed it and did not look at it for six months. By then the author, a certain Francis Joseph Thompson, had disappeared. Letters addressed to him went unanswered. At last Meynell resorted to the oldest author-tracing trick of the trade: he printed one of the submitted poems, The Passion of Mary, and found his poet...
...revenue and expenditures widened by $2,800,000 a day. At week's end, to fill civil servants' wage packets, the treasury asked the ailing Bank of France for a loan of 50 billion francs. It got only 25 billion, and a sharp reminder from Bank Governor Wilfrid Baumgartner: "The state, like its citizens, is living beyond its means...