Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When P.G. Wodehouse, a shy man, was persuaded for once to give a public reading, he became so absorbed in his own story that he quite forgot his audience. "By Jove, that's good! I'd no idea," he muttered. "Devilish funny." Millions agreed with him. Bertrand Russell could hardly wait for the next Bertie Wooster novel. Bix Beiderbecke quoted Psmith by the page. Evelyn Waugh, scarcely noted for charitable overstatement, called his colleague "preeminent and undisputed...
...grandfather, Diana is related to Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sir Winston Churchill (middle name: Spencer) is a cousin, as is former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Scholarly limbs include Historian Henry Adams, Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Lexicographer Noah Webster. Theatrical boughs: Humphrey Bogart and Lillian Gish...
...trial was part of the Permanent Tribunal of Peoples, formed in 1979 and modeled after the Bertrand Russel tribunal on the United States for its involvement in Vietnam...
...this year's crop looks like the second. Forwards Jay North, Phil Falcone and Shayne Kukulowicz lead a crop of Yardlings which ranks with any in the ECAC. "Harvard had a great recruiting year," Cornell coach Dick Bertrand says. "Maybe the best in the league...
...puts pen to paper. "I read the news, and then I try to let it sift through my mental passages, so I can boil it down...People are not going to read long drawn-out writings," the University of Texas graduate says, adding that his models of clarity include Bertrand Russell, Leo Tolstoy and the King James Bible. All the letters are written early in the morning, "one, two, three, when the moonlight is in the window and my mind is the clearest." And each the product of an undivided attention: "I don't have a radio, a television...