Word: beg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local Don Juan. But when he refuses to acknowledge Lourdes's baby, her enraged mother, Zeline, pronounces a curse on him, and Saint Marc knows that trouble is ahead. Sure enough, a few days later, Diogène's wife comes down with a seizure, screaming, "I beg you, please get this sack off my head..." Everyone knows what that means: Zéline has cast a spell...
...surround her. Sympathetically and quietly, she administers the last rites to a dying generation. One friend, a rich old Italian duke who has made the frightful error of marrying his cook, dies with Lady Maclean bending tenderly over his deathbed. Another, a dried-out, egotistical playwright, gets Ruby to beg his 30-years-estranged wife for a reconciliation. And Good Samaritan Ruby is there with shelter when the withered mistress of a septuagenarian vicomte is left stranded by his death...
...social center is the Himalayan Hotel, operated by the Mac-Donalds, a jovial Scottish-Tibetan family, who organize Saturday night parties liberally spiced with unusual conversation and hot millet beer. On one recent occasion, in the dining room, a Buddhist Englishwoman thought that she recognized another woman guest. "I beg your pardon," she said, "but haven't we met in a previous incarnation?" "Yes," was the reply, "I believe we have. I was Joan of Arc and you were my brother." The Englishwoman drew herself up haughtily. 'Certainly not," she snapped, "I have never been a male...
...critics thought he might just as well have been buying up freight space on the first rocket to the moon. He sold his ranch, mortgaged his automobile, moved into a little four-room bungalow in the Hollywood hills (where he still lives), sank every nickel he could beg, borrow or earn into his vast and complicated project. It took almost $350,000 in all, involved years of haggling and the signing of 1,500 separate contracts. But when television became an actuality, he was ready...
...Minister Jules Moch. Letourneau is responsible for Indo-China, but he has lacked power to prosecute the war. Privately he is reported to have complained: "Whenever I need a uniform button I have to apply to Jules Moch for it. Whenever I need an additional franc I have to beg [Finance Minister] Maurice Petsche...