Word: beaton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo. All through the summer, 140 miles behind the lines, Cairo had sweltered and fidgeted, stirring uneasily under an occasional sprinkle of Axis aerial bombs. In & out of gaudy, mosquelike Shepheard's Hotel had streamed the city's potpourri: cotton kings, gamblers, Imperial soldiers, newsmen and Cecil Beaton, wincing at the din of "hurdy-gurdies, bicycle bells, news vendors, trams, bagpipes, loudspeakers and the braying of donkeys...
Wrote Photographer Beaton in Vogue: "The dust blows past the jalousies into the 'Art Moderne 1900' interiors, on to the pinnacles of bric-a-brac. . . . The heat becomes oppressive; only the darkened room is bearable." Before his eyes swam Beatonesque visions: "Prince Mohammed Ali, heir to the throne and cousin of King Farouk I ... in his tarboosh, morning coat and sponge-bag trousers, with an enormous emerald on one finger." . . . Madam Fouad El Manasterly at soirées in her garden overlooking the Nile. "The glitter of the Turkish standard candelabra and the white-draped musicians...
Coach Art Cochran of the visitors will start Captain Howie Redgate at center, flanked by forwards Dick Van Gundy and Nick Dol Ninno. Two Seniors. Marshall snyder, who have recently beaton out Junior Al Shapiro for their positions, will open the game at guard...
Strachey's warden (whom he modestly calls Ford) covered a poor section of London near the Thames River. "A bomb, or bombs, had hit the last five houses in Beaton Street . . . and a small tenement...
...smallish, quick-moving man came up and asked: 'Where's my rabbits?' He received no answer. 'Four I 'ad,' he said, 'kept 'em in the-Anderson [shelter], and this morning I saw two of 'em up the top of Beaton Street.' Ford wondered if his warden's training should have included elementary rabbit catching...