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Word: williamses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Most tony U. S. prep schools-such as Phillips Andover and Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Kent-are Protestant, in spirit if not by direct church affiliation. Twenty-five years ago a Jesuit-educated young man named Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Canterbury Tale | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

IN THE MONEY-William Carlos Williams-New Directions ($2.50).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

The Corn Is Green (by Emlyn Williams, produced by Herman Shumlin) joins a good sound sentimental play with just the actress for the job: Ethel Barrymore. Although its young Welsh author is best known in the U. S. for his murder drama Night Must Fall, this is no story of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Most autobiographies centre on the autobiographer, but Playwright Williams', for reasons that become plain as the play progresses, centres on the character played by Ethel Barrymore. She is a cultivated, middle-aged spinster who moves to a Welsh village toward the end of the 19th Century, bent on educating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

If Father Conkling accepts, Chicago will have its youngest (45) bishop ever. Tall, vigorous, blue-eyed, prematurely white, a graduate of Williams and Oxford, he served in the Navy during World War I, has been at big (1,419 communicants), fashionable St. Luke's since 1924. There he has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopal Election | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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