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Not so with Webster , for, owing to a bit of folly in the 1930s, G. & C. Merriam Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, successors to the line of dictionaries originated by Noah Webster, published a synonym dictionary and called it a Webster . World Publishing Company, of Cleveland, had the wit to see that Merriam had, in effect, forsworn its birthright, for Noah had never published a synonym dictionary.
Within the space of a year came the successful New York run (last winter) of Pam Gems' intense biographical play Stanley , the American publication of Kenneth Pople's comprehensive biography, and an admiring profile by Simon Schama in The New Yorker . The recent attention showered on Spencer's flesh-obsessed successors, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon (a movie about the latter is due out this winter), makes Spencer seem more mainstream.
In five years, the General built new roads, created a royal postal service, and set the pattern of Mughal administration for the next two centuries before dying in battle and leaving the throne to a number of inept successors and, eventually, the return of Humayun.
He thought of Americans as God’s “almost chosen people,” successors to the Jews in a relationship with the Divine that could be described as “almost a covenant.”
First built as a fortress by Philippe Auguste in 1190, it has been added to and altered by his successors.