Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock: Several old reliables dominate this more civilized time. William Y. Elliott provides a very gentle transition from slumber into wakefulness in New Lec, with his pontifications on political theory in Gov. 1b (formerly...
...Such a law, still on the books in Tennessee, brought the late great trial lawyer Clarence Darrow and Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan into conflict in 1925's famed "Monkey Trial." Science Teacher John Thomas Scopes was found guilty, assessed a $100 fine...
...Gallery has been a staunch patron of American art. This week it marks its 100th birthday with a two-city celebration: a loan exhibition at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery of outstanding pictures drawn from its collection and its regular biennial roundup of contemporary U.S. paintings in Washington. Founder William Wilson Corcoran was a Washington banker so rich and so well connected financially that he could and did underwrite much of the cost of the Mexican War (1846-48). While new-rich American collectors of the 19th century were turning almost exclusively to European art, Corcoran himself chose to concentrate...
...years, C.B. made soap operas with such homely morals as "Don't change your spouse." Then, said his younger brother William: "Having attended to the underclothes, bathrooms and matrimonial irregularities of his fellow citizens, he began to consider their salvation." C.B. rediscovered the Bible...
...with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of its author, Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo...