Word: noblemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mostly unsuccessful efforts to conquer the island. Hegemony was finally established during the Reformation, when Queen Elizabeth's army beat the last of Ulster's great Celtic earls, Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell, at the battle of Kinsale in 1601. The vast lands of these Catholic noblemen were forfeited to English and Scottish "undertakers," who were pledged to "implant" them with farmers of Protestant faith and British race...
...Gray Lady. That boast could be made about Glamis Castle alone if the Gazetteer's listings are to be taken on faith. Within those walls, for instance, are the ghosts of a little gray lady who appears now and then in the chapel, a pair of 15th century noblemen damned to play dice forever in the castle tower, someone who used to whip bedclothes off sleepers, and a woman without a tongue who runs across the park every night pointing in dumb anguish to her wounded mouth...
...fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. It is their descendants-including the Nathan, Gratz, Seixas, Franks and Lopez families-that Birmingham examines. They consider themselves the nobility of American Jewry because their heritage can be traced back to medieval Spain and Portugal, where their ancestors lived as grandees-Spanish or Portuguese noblemen of the first rank...
...clear, serviceable prose, less careless than Agatha Christie's and less precious than Dorothy Sayers'. It must be said, though, that Mr. Campion began life in The Black Dudley Murder (1928) in unblushing imitation of Sayers' rococo creation, Lord Peter Wimsey. Both were lean, languid young noblemen who spoke in the high whine that Waugh classified as the British upper class baying for broken glass. Both concealed great skill and cunning behind a facade of graceful, gratuitous vagueness...