Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent years had divided his time between London nightclubs and the sale of radiators in the U.S., the young marquess had amply rewarded the scrutiny by providing Mayfair with its best gossip. Sometime ago one of his showgirl friends shocked London by climbing into the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey for a publicity gag. Several weeks ago the enterprising peer titillated the town again and got his latest business off to a good start by sending out invitations that read: "The Marquess of Milford Haven invites your company at the opening of a new launderette in Hammersmith." He avoided...
...pose is lying down. England's new matinee idol, Kieron Moore, has an unusual change-of-pace style of acting. He gives the effect of a meandering block of dispossessed concrete that suddenly pauses and sparkles whenever an actress appears on the scene. Saints and Sinners allows the Abbey Players to have a histrionic field day in the Irish countryside...
...Author Merton (now Father Louis of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky) such a life seems the surest way to bring a man close to God. What he finds lacking in it is enough time for contemplation. As he complained in The Seven Storey Mountain, "The life is too active . . . too much...
...Sincerely. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began writing his Sherlock Holmes stories in 1887, he picked 221B Baker Street because there was no such address; the numbers stopped short of 200. But in 1931, an eight-story office building was put up at 220-223 Baker Street by the Abbey National Building Society. Ever since, the London post office has turned over to the company an average of five letters a month addressed to Holmes at 221B, and the company has dutifully answered them...
Like most of history's great inventions, champagne was probably not created suddenly by one man; it was slowly bubbled into being. But Pérignon, who was head cellarer at the Abbey of Hautvillers in northern France, is generally considered history's greatest champagne pioneer. Almost singlehanded, he founded France's flourishing champagne industry. Under his guidance, the making of champagne became at once a science and an art. Vintaging operations each fall virtually came to require the discipline and organization of an army. A decent bottle of Veuve Clicquot or Piper-Heidsieck takes years...