Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rosie's amorous career began at 14 in tiny Niedermending, where she instantly became a military objective of the French troops who then occupied the airport. A few years later, Rosie moved on to Frankfurt and became a bar girl. Soon she had enough money to buy a modest Ford Taunus, then graduated to a red-upholstered Mercedes 190 SL. She would cruise up and down the Kaiserstrasse or park in front of the Frankfurter Hof, the city's swankest hotel. As a plump, well-tailored captain of industry approached, Rosie would appear to be having trouble with...
Until the very last minute, his newly won friends worked furiously to fill up the gaps in Abdie's American background. He was taught about George Washington's cherry tree, taken to the Air Force snack bar and instructed in ice-cream sundaes. There was an eleventh-hour panic when it was discovered that he knew nothing about Paul Revere. But he worked hard and remembered it all. Said Bardos: "He has a mind like a sponge...
...cousin, living in Montreal, insisted that gifted Goren go to college. Charlie moved in with the cousin, enrolled at McGill University law school. After finishing up the regular three-year course, stayed on for a postgraduate year before going back to Philadelphia and bluffing his way through the Pennsylvania bar exam. "I had to bluff," he says. "I didn't know anything about Pennsylvania law." A fellow lawyer of the 1920s recalls Goren as "brilliant," but no one could prove it by Lawyer Goren himself. In his 13 years of practice, he never made more than...
...grumpy reporters around the bar at the Friends of China Club in Formosa, the two-edged motto of the day was, "Down with everything!" Censorship jointly imposed by U.S. and Chinese Nationalist forces last week reduced the 44 foreign correspondents on Formosa to reporting the Chinese Communists' attacks on Quemoy from scraps of released information, e.g., "An amount of supplies was landed...
...giggled at the fun. Dame Margot Fonteyn turned up along with Gracie Fields. At midnight, when Bea Lillie, alias Lady Peel, arrived, the party reached its peak. Someone peeled off his dinner jacket; someone else pushed him into the pool. A fully dressed couple staged an underwater race. The bar closed at 2 a.m., but 35 cases of whisky, gin, beer, champagne, vodka, sherry had given the party enough momentum to last till...