Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilfred J. Funk's listing of the ten most beautiful words in the English language [June 11] was a challenge to use them all in one short sentence. "The luminous mist rose from the murmuring brook at the hush of dawn with a melody like a tranquil lullaby of golden chimes...
...sack and pukka sahib: busby brows that shoot up in startled innocence or beetle down with Mac the Knife malevolence; lugubrious eyes rocketing around like apoplectic billiard balls; a Scotch-sodden thatch of mustache, and, of course, those two front teeth, gaping wide as Becher's Brook. Wherever he takes a stroll, from Soho to Sunset Boulevard, Terry-Thomas is stopped by little old ladies who ask him to smile. When he obliges, they always exclaim: "It's real...
...vice president of National General Corp., a movie-theater firm; and Nicole Gillman, 26, a pretty, French magazine reporter who met him eight months ago during his unsuccessful campaign for the Senate; he for the third time; in a Paris civil ceremony three days after being divorced by Nancy Brook Joy, 37, his wife of eight years...
When he feels the need to meditate, King Hassan goes to the mountains. He was there last week, at Ifrane, in a grey stone palace surrounded by ilex trees, where he could picnic with friends beside a brook or cast March brown flies to the rainbow trout flashing in the clear water...
...feels she so richly deserves. She lives with her lawyer-manufacturer husband and two teen-age daughters in a 22-room country home in Surrey, has a Mayfair flat, a Bentley, a swimming pool, a butler and a lady's maid. But her proudest possession remains the Brook Street Bureau. "I have built up this business on my own," she says. "Absolutely on my own. It is a one-woman show...