Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petals & Kisses. As the barge plied upriver, hundreds of shikaras (gondolas) milled around; their jampacked passengers wanted a good look, and they pelted Nehru with flower petals. Police in speedboats dashed back & forth, keeping shikaras at safe distance...
...Mate for Toodie. Plain Londoners slipped around a corner to drop a sentimental tear into a cool pint, and Mayfair retired to its cocktails to discuss another Cinderella. She was a pretty, Boston-bred...
...Aldeburgh. Others flocked to Kensington to mill about the streets outside the bride's own modest third-story flat and to coo at one another over the wonder of this sad-eyed Cinderella who was to marry a king's nephew. So great was the enthusiasm all around that even Henry Honneybun, a bakery driver who had been the earl's batman during the war, got a rousing cheer when he left for the festivities...
...approach of the Chinese Communists across the border has given the Reds visions of decisive victory, but it has also aggravated a growing rift between the hard Communist core of leaders around Ho, who are ready to accept Mao Tse-tung's leadership, and the rank & file, who fear China and want Viet Nam for the Viet Namese. One French general told me: "For two years I had to keep statistics of desertions to the Communists. For the last two months my statistics are Communist desertions...
Cinemactress Jane Russell "is profoundly, indeed, apocalyptically, interested in the future state of the world-her approach being religious (though not ecclesiastical) rather than political." So, in his weekly newspaper column, announced awed Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg, who had been showing Visitor Russell around Parliament. "She has studied the Bible and its interpretation deeply. In her mother's garden in California, she told me, she and a group of other young people have built a chapel; down there, among the eucalyptus trees, strictly for prayer . . . Crowds of them come in every evening...