Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armchair, and acts like the umpire at a political tennis match. Constitutionally, he ranks second only to the President of the Republic. Financially, his job is a choice plum: $15,000 a year, a black, six-cylinder Citroën and a chauffeur, a big apartment in the Palais Bourbon with Louis XV furniture, Sevres china, gold-plated silverware, even free gas and electricity...
...Edinburgh, love was triumphant over the law, religion and an imperious father. No sooner were the banns published announcing the marriage of Maria Isabella Patino y Bourbon, 18, and James
Married. Maria Isabella Patino y Bourbon, 18, Bolivian tin millionheiress; and James Michael Goldsmith, 20, son of a wealthy London hotelman; in Kelso, Scotland (see PEOPLE...
...Marine, De Joinville's watercolors of the U.S. Civil War were on public view for the first time. The property of his great-grandnephew, the Count of Paris, the paintings were being exhibited, in an odd reconciliation of historical opposites, under the joint sponsorship of the count-the Bourbon-Orléans pretender-and the retiring President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol. Among the 60 neatly drawn and pleasantly colored watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene of a Union convoy along a quiet road, and an exciting pictorial...
...finds that many of his patients still live mainly on sowbelly, sorghum, hominy grits and turnip greens. It must be pretty good fare, he says, because he rarely sees a case of diet deficiency (though he does report an occasional deficiency due to too little food and "too much bourbon)." And while he gives full credit to lifesaving antibiotics, Dr. Greenwell still carries sugar pills (see below) in his bag. "They're one of the best remedies," he says, "for people who don't really have anything wrong, but think they ought to get something...