Word: borings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to issue a communiqué calling on "all Cubans to resist jointly with the President." At one point a car raced, guns firing, toward the palace gate; two guards were killed and seven wounded in an exchange of shots. Shortly afterwards, the gate opened and a limousine bore Prio away. On the dot of 9, armored cars followed by truckloads of infantrymen converged on the palace. White sheets fluttered from upstairs windows. For all practical purposes, the revolt was over...
...idyllic way of life, so do they cheapen the second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman who bore them, while Keeta gets herself just about the nicest man in Florida. Its last part reads as though some publishing expert finally explained to Author Russ what it takes to get a book published these days...
...great & good friend in his last years of life-weary Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (and claims that she was the inspiration for the Hollywood girl in The Last Tycoon). After Fitzgerald died, Sheilah was married for six years to British aircraft production Expert Trevor Westbrook, and bore him two children: Frances, now nine, and Robert, six. With the children, Sheilah lives on "something under $50,000" a year in a pleasant stucco house only four doors away from Queen Louella Parsons, with whom she is on seemingly friendly terms...
...where he had retired to translate the Bible was, as a wartime emergency, inundated with teen-age students from a London convent, and Ronnie was forced to spend most of his war listening to the confessions of hundreds of female adolescents. Being a great and humble priest, he undoubtedly bore this cross eagerly and brilliantly...
...animal has been trusted to draw a hearse in a royal funeral since a horse became fractious at Queen Victoria's funeral. Solemn lines of Navy ratings (enlisted men) in uniform blue hauled the gun carriage that bore the King's coffin. Behind them, in the bright red and gilt state coach, rode the bereaved women, dim, veiled, scarcely visible: Britain's young Queen, her mother, her sister Margaret and her aunt, the Princess Royal. Behind them, walking four abreast, came the Royal Dukes: Edinburgh, the Queen's husband; Gloucester, the King's younger brother...