Word: ch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night a week after the election, as John Diefenbaker and Olive sat down to chicken sandwiches and ice cream in Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel, a telephone call came from Government House. While Olive wept softly with excitement, John was informed that on the following day Governor General Massey would ask him to form a new government of Canada...
Strictly Earthbound. Even D. H. Lawrence, to whom sexuality was the essence of life, tinged it richly with a sort of mysticism. But Colette, genius or no, was unique in regarding life as a marvelous array of strictly earthbound sensuous experiences. In novels such as Chéri and Julie de Carneilhan, she described as never before the precise effects of fingers upon skin, the allure of perfumes, the sensual enchantments of voices, glances and languorous movements...
HELICOPTER TOURS of the French château country will be started this summer by Belgium's Sabena World Airlines. It will offer nine-hour trip for close view of twelve Loire Valley châteaux (price: $72), plus 80-minute trip over six castles (price...
...shows that he could combine these earlier influences into a work that became uniquely his own. The drama is in the landscape itself, in the mountains and solid trees seen emerging through the fog. But 500 years later it was the small, indistinct figures that caught the eye of Ch'ing (Manchu) Emperor Ch'ien-lung, caused him to write his appreciation at the top of the scroll: "Mountain and villages, dimly seen through rain and clouds; the fisherman on his way home feels the weight [of rain] on his clothes...
...painting he wrote: "Miss Li Tuan-tuan of the House of Shan Ho is indeed a walking flower. In spite of all the rich men in Yangchow, she has given her love to a poor scholar." The House of Shan Ho housed the prostitutes of the day. ¶ Ch'iu Ying worked mainly in the painstaking style that dates back to the T'ang Dynasty's General Li. He was scorned for his meticulous style by a Literary Man, who said: "When he painted a snake he could not refrain from adding feet." Perhaps in reply Ch...