Senate Years of Service: 1911-1922Party: RepublicanKENYON, William Squire, a Senator from Iowa; born in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, June 10, 1869; moved to Iowa in 1870 and attended the…
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(Encyclopedia) miracle play or mystery play, form of medieval drama that came from dramatization of the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. It developed from the 10th to the 16th cent., reaching…
(Encyclopedia) Temple, Sir William, 1628–99, English diplomat and author. He was married in 1655 to Dorothy Osborne. They settled in Ireland, and in 1661 Temple entered the Irish parliament. He moved…
