Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named Cordell Hull let her ride his ponies. She has swapped cabled pleasantries with her friend Winston Churchill. An admirer, Lord Beaverbrook, once gave her a party attended by such eager guests as the Aga Khan and Rudolph Valentino. Jock Whitney, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Kent, Ronald Colman-they have all flitted through the spotlight that trails Tallulah wherever she goes. In London, Lawrence of Arabia used to run out to get her fresh cigarettes when her supply...
...pipe against the fireplace or consult one of the fat books stacked on the massive antique table before him. At last he stood up, pulled the paper from his typewriter and closed his reference books with a ceremonious bang. His nine-year labor was finished. Monsignor Ronald Knox had completed his translation of the Catholic Bible...
Without Impediment. "Anyone who writes Latin poetry at the age of twelve is bound to end up doing something like translating the Bible," said a Knox acquaintance recently. From his Eton days, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, now 60, has been noted for his witty, agile mind. The sixth child of the Anglican Bishop of Manchester (both his grandfathers were also Protestant divines), he grew up in what his autobiography calls "that form of Protestant piety which the modern world half regrets, half derides as 'old-fashioned...
...cherished regular among the witty debaters of the Oxford Union. To eke out his meager chaplaincy allotment he began to produce smoothly written detective novels-a total of six in ten years. (He was once asked if the title page of his Bible would refer to him as "Ronald Knox, author of The Viaduct Murder...
...when wild falcons began attacking their carrier pigeons, the R.A.F. had almost brought British falconry to a full stop. Then an ardent falconer and artillery private named Ronald Stevens persuaded the brass that falcons could be turned to their own uses. Stevens and his birds were drafted and put to work against enemy pigeons...