Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romance with Head Cold. When The Blue Bird was produced in Paris, the author's eyes lingered on a lively girl who played the part of "Cold-in-the-Head." He took her home to the ancient Benedictine abbey near Rouen which he had bought as his residence. Eight years later, when Cold-in-the-Head was 27, the 57-year-old poet forsook Georgette and married her. They reconverted a huge gambling casino on a hillside overlooking Nice. There they settled down...
Away from war-clogged roads, but within earshot of the thump of collapsing bridges, China's peasants worked their land in immemorial rhythm. Across fields heavy with the smell of dung, water buffalo pulled ancient wooden plows. Civil war had hardly touched this part of China before. "We are a peace-loving, obedient people," said one old woman. "We are not rich. We want only to do our work. Will the Communists hurt...
...because the leading members of the organization are graduating. But the HTW will continue to be a part of the local scene for some time to come. After a profitable season last summer operating Brattle Hall as a professional repertory theater, the group now plans the demolition of that ancient building and the construction of a new theater...
...career as an editorial prodigy progressed, according to Busch, "with the speed and directness of an arrow." As a moppet he entertained his family with such epic poems as The Mouse's Party, which ran to 142 stanzas because its author was out to outdo The Ancient Mariner. At Brooklyn's Polytechnic Prep, he put out a handwritten gossip sheet called The Daily Glonk. But he did not really want to be an editor; he yearned to be another Ty Cobb. Though an inept ballplayer, Hadden modeled his batting style and his energetic walking style after his hero...
...Harvey, who had discovered the circulation of the blood, Aubrey got eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from the New World, threw the ladies into fits by puffing a pipe of tobacco. From here & there, Aubrey gleaned tales about a Stratford butcher's boy who was caught poaching; in fact, John Aubrey...